Five people were rescued Saturday night from the Kern River. It is the same day that Kern County experienced its first triple-digit weather. SEE ALSO: Bakersfield hits first triple-digit ...

Residents of the Kern River Valley expressed concern about proposed cuts to the federal government at a Kernville Chamber of Commerce meeting at which a staff member of Rep. Vince Fong ...

Environmental activists in Bakersfield have won an initial victory in their legal fight to keep water flowing in the Kern River, which for many years was reduced to a dry, sandy riverbed.

The Kern River in California's southern San Joaquin Valley is pictured raging with new melting snowpack. (Natalie Hanson / Courthouse News) BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (CN) — In a win for environmental groups ...

Aug. 28—To call 2023 an unusual water year in the Kern River Basin would be a serious understatement. "It was the most abnormal water year you could possibly have," said Evan Moore of Sierra ...

This could also refer to a waterfall. I have run whitewater rapids along the Kern River, the Stanislaus River, the American River, the Payette, and the Colorado River, and each time was thrilling.

Two men were reported missing in California’s Kern River on Saturday, the Kern County Sheriff’s Office said. The Kern River is about 165 miles long, running from the southern Sierra Nevada ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Four kayakers were rescued and another remained missing after the group got into trouble on California’s fast-flowing Kern River, authorities said. Deputies and a ...

A kayaker died and four more had to be rescued from the high-flowing Kern River, the Tulare County Sheirff’s Office said Wednesday. The Swiftwater Rescue Team was called to the Kern River in the ...

The Kern River is one of the most dangerous rivers in the United States with more than 315 lives lost in its swift and deceptive waters since 1968. And this year's record snowmelt means the river ...