A Kern County jury on Thursday found a man guilty of all charges in a 2023 DUI incident on East Belle Terrace in which one ...

Two local softball teams, Bakersfield Christian in CIF Central Section Division II and Wasco in Division III, played ...

Train Robbers, an independent professional minor-league baseball team in the Pecos League, opened its 2025 season with a ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised state budget assumes California will see a sharp decline in projected revenue, largely because ...

Following an overnight session, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," a massive piece of ...

The last and likely toughest obstacle for any local high school track and field athlete whose season-long goal has been to ...

Former Bakersfield resident and Vietnam combat veteran David L. Jackson spent years serving his fellow veterans through the ...

The CIF Central Section Division II semifinal softball playoff game between fourth-seeded Bakersfield Christian and No. 9 ...

The Democrat Fire just off Highway 178 was 70% contained Thursday with no forward movement, according to the U.S. Forest ...

Officials at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano are investigating the Wednesday death of an inmate as a homicide.

The Kern County coroner's office identified the motorcyclist who died Monday in Shafter when he was hit by another vehicle.

An increase in brass irrigation valve thefts from farms in the northern area of the county has led to several thousand dollars in damages as suspects remove brass to recycle ...