For decades, residents of Bakersfield have lived with a river that’s little more than a channel of dust. The Kern, which pours from the snowy peaks of the southern Sierra, descends upon California’s ...

Panorama of the upper fork of the Kern River, Sierra Nevada, Kern County, California. (Roger Howard/Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) FRESNO, Calif. (CN) — Environmental groups clashed Thursday ...

The Kern River is one of the great rivers of California’s Sierra Nevada range, descending from its headwaters near the base of Mount Whitney to the San Joaquin Valley floor. Under drought conditions, ...

with mid-80s to low-90s in the Kern Desert. mid-80s in the Kern River ... the forecast is bringing a chance of thunderstorms to the Sierra Nevada mountains to our north on Wednesday, but we ...

The Sierra Nevada mountains above Bakersfield saw a healthy dusting of snow last week as an atmospheric river brought cold ... which includes parts of Kern County, was at 90% of average; Central ...

The Service is proposing protections for 27 units of critical habitat: along the North Feather River (192,275 acres); South Sierra Nevada Mountains south of Placer County to Kern County (307,772 acres ...