Kern County officials support Governor Newsom's proposal to streamline oil and gas permitting while maintaining environmental standards, potentially stabilizing fuel prices.

Over four months after a federal jury awarded $30.5 million to the family of a man shot and killed by a Kern County Sheriff’s deputy in Mojave, the county is ...

The Kern County Fair said on social media Thursday that they are monitoring a scam from a person posing as a staff member who is emailing possible vendors for ...

A 67-year-old man, who has yet to be identified, died while in custody of the Kern County Sheriff’s Office, officials said.

Amid ongoing uncertainty over federal funding of local health services, a project to prevent suicide and substance use among Native American youth in Kern County could be scaled back, or possibly ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 1:33 p.m. in Kern County, California. Welch Fire has been burning on private land. At ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Kern County supervisors have approved significant cuts to the county’s public health department. They ...

The Kern County Sheriff’s Office is warning the public about an ongoing phone scam in which individuals impersonating Sheriff ...

To tell you the truth, people don’t want to attend these things without any pay,” the protest organizer told a judge.

The Kern County coroner’s office has released the identity of a Wasco resident killed Tuesday morning in a traffic collision in the city.

Kern County Sheriff's deputies should soon be able to leave the cracking, crumbling and settling Taft substation for much ...

The Kern County coroner’s office has identified a Bakersfield man who was struck by a vehicle and died on South Union Avenue the morning of July 4.