A $3.2 million state grant awarded to Bakersfield College will put local students to work helping educate young people and distributing food, among other activities, while they earn money for school.

The Kern County Sheriff’s Office will conduct its own use-of-force investigation following an incident in Porterville where an armored vehicle intentionally ran over a suspect, killing him.

Mangoes are hard to find in orchards around Kern, but they’ve become the next big thing for one of the county’s most advanced fruit breeders.

This weekend’s California Republican Party convention was poised to be a drama-filled event. The party held out a slim hope that its two gubernatorial candidates, if they played nicely enough, could lock Democrats out of the November election and reclaim statewide office for the first time i…

Bakersfield police have arrested a 29-year-old man accused of a series of retail thefts and acts of vandalism around the city.

PORTERVILLE — The suspect who killed a Tulare County Sheriff’s deputy Thursday after TCSO tried to issue an eviction notice at a residence was killed himself when he was run over by a Kern County SWAT BearCat vehicle.

Bakersfield attorney Daniel Rodriguez filed a precursor to a lawsuit Thursday in the case of Maria Vasquez, 88, of Shafter, who died of injuries she suffered March 22, when the car she was riding in was involved in a collision with a vehicle driven by a Kern County sheriff’s deputy.

Panelists at an energy conference Thursday at Cal State Bakersfield examined potential trade-offs if Kern County moves forward with development of data centers that, for all their tax revenue generation, could strain local water resources and drive up energy costs without creating many jobs.

Small groups of Bakersfield residents have gathered over the last two days to protest the ongoing war with Iran, calling on Kern County’s congressional representatives to oppose funding and military operations.

The old First Baptist Church — one of Bakersfield’s nationally recognized landmarks — was reopened to the public Thursday after two years of renovations by the Kern County Superintendent of Schools.

One of the oldest retailers in Bakersfield celebrated its first expansion outside Kern County with a ribbon-cutting Thursday at its new store in Fresno.

Bakersfield police are looking for a man who they say assaulted two elderly people March 8 in the 600 block of Truxtun Avenue.

A 69-year-old Bakersfield man found unresponsive Monday in a residential pool in the 10000 block of Vista Dela Luna Drive has been identified by the Kern County coroner’s office.

The Bakersfield Police Department is requesting the public’s help in identifying a suspect in an embezzlement or theft case involving a rental vehicle.

The children’s mobile immunization clinic, operated by Adventist Health and funded by First 5 Kern, has been around for decades — and on Wednesday morning, the medical team aboard was already busy with walk-in traffic in the parking lot of the Kern County Department of Human Services in east…

The majority of Bakersfield’s Measure N sales tax dollars continues to be dedicated to personnel as costs across the board continue to rise.

Three men were arrested in eastern Kern County Wednesday on suspicion of cargo theft, conspiracy and possession of a stolen vehicle, the Kern County Sheriff’s Office reported.

California’s largest association of local food banks called Wednesday for restoring state spending on a key safety net that serves poor people who will soon be disqualified from receiving federal nutrition assistance.

Potentially lucrative federal tax designations hang in the balance as local government officials turn to Kern County’s outlying areas for information that will help them come up with a list of census tracts in need of — and ready to support — private investment.

The Kern County coroner’s office has identified a 55-year-old Vallejo man who died Saturday after the vehicle he was a passenger in collided with another on Highway 99 north of Highway 155 in Delano.

The Bakersfield Police Department is requesting the public’s help in identifying a man and a woman who it says on March 8 fraudulently used credit cards from a handbag lost at a gas station in the 3200 block of Ming Avenue.

For decades many local families felt it necessary to take their seriously ill children out of Kern County to find the kind of pediatric care that wasn’t available at home.

Tejon Ranch Co. has released a copy of its official proxy ballot as it prepares to host investors for an annual shareholder meeting next month at the company’s headquarters in Lebec.

Local truckers are feeling adrift after California suspended roughly 13,000 commercial drivers licenses in March and has yet to reissue new licenses to drivers who were told they would be able to apply.

A 47-year-old Glendale man died after being shot Saturday evening in Tehachapi, the Kern County coroner’s office reported Tuesday.

Bakersfield’s public bus system unveiled a series of route adjustments this week as part of a campaign to increase ridership after it lost passengers during the pandemic.

The Bakersfield Police Department is looking for a man who it says stole a bag containing a wallet, jewelry and more than $950 in cash March 20 at Valley Plaza mall.

A Kern County jury convicted a man Tuesday of crimes including lewd and lascivious acts against a 15-year-old girl, the county District Attorney’s Office reported.

The Bakersfield Police Department requested the public’s help Tuesday in identifying a man who it says stole a bicycle at about 3 p.m. Feb. 7 in the 2700 block of Ming Avenue.

The Bakersfield Police Department asked for the public’s help Tuesday in identifying a suspect in a burglary at 7:30 a.m. Jan. 29 at a storage unit in the 3300 block of Truxtun Avenue.

A not-guilty pleading Tuesday morning by a former Cal State Bakersfield assistant basketball coach prompted a Kern County Superior Court judge to schedule a trial to start May 26 in the case involving human-trafficking and other charges.

A 29-year-old Bloomington man died on the Westside Parkway early Saturday when the motorcycle he was driving hit a chain link fence just west of Coffee Road, the Kern County coroner’s office reported Tuesday.

Several hundred people gathered Monday night in northwest Bakersfield to see more than a dozen Republican candidates across a range of state positions.

A Bakersfield man faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine after he pleaded guilty Monday to operating a business that transmitted more than $5 million in illegal income.

The zoo at California Living Museum attracts more than 100,000 visitors each year.

Allegations of gender insensitivity at Taft College made national news Monday as the Trump administration ended a series of settlement agreements aimed at protecting transgender students’ civil rights.

Police say a shooting Sunday afternoon in south Bakersfield sent several people to the hospital.

Immigration agents violated a preliminary injunction during a July operation in Sacramento, a court ruled this week, saying their actions violated terms placed on federal agencies following raids in Kern County in January 2025.

A pattern repeats itself along Bakersfield’s California Avenue professional services corridor west of downtown: Building after building has signs out front advertising space for lease.

A national retailer is setting up shop inside a 25,800-square-foot retail space that has sat vacant for close to two years along one of west Bakersfield’s busiest streets at one of the area’s most popular shopping centers.

It was a nationally recognized benchmark named after a local oil field. Representing be the price on which most local crude oil sales were based, it was a standard “you could set your clock to,” as longtime Kern County oilman Les Clark put it.

Four people were arrested after a search warrant Kern County Sheriff’s Office deputies served Wednesday in Lamont turned up about 200 pounds of stolen, commercial-grade copper wire, burglary tools and an illegal marijuana grow, the agency reported.

A 39-year-old Shafter resident has been identified as the victim in a traffic accident shortly after midnight Wednesday in the 1300 block of Manor Street in Bakersfield.

The Bakersfield Police Department asked for the public’s help Thursday in identifying a man who it says is suspected of involvement in a sexual assault case March 23 in the 9000 block of Camino Media.