A new wildfire was reported today at 8:24 a.m. in Kern County. Cannel Fire has been burning on private land. At present, ...

Training 1 Fire initially started 7:37 a.m. Jan. 2 in Kern County. It has been burning on private land for ten months. There ...

Every month hundreds of dogs in Kern County are put down because there’s not enough shelter space. Luckily, in 2024, over ...

Multiple fire departments raced to smother the flames of a massive fire that erupted in a southeast Bakersfield warehouse ...

Kern Elections Division released another batch of results. In the race for California’s 20th Congressional District, former ...

Kern County Deputies Arrest Two Suspects in Large-Scale Drug Conversion Lab with 85 Pounds of Meth in Bakersfield ...

While voters anxiously await results from the 2024 election, they're posting away on social media. Interest rate-sensitive ...

Happy Wednesday! Winds picked up overnight for the mountain areas, and gusty conditions will continue for today. Temperatures ...

NAACP offers free rides through Lyft and the Dolores Huerta Action Plan offers their own free rides for voters in Kern County ...

Monday is Veterans Day, and thousands of families are expected to attend the Veterans Day Parade that morning in downtown.

Kern County Fire sent nearly 100 firefighters Wednesday to assist in the "Mountain Fire" in Ventura County after they were ...

The Bakersfield Californian seeks to honor 2024's most influential people of Kern County. This honor will go to people living and/or working in Kern County who have had the greatest influence in this ...