It's no secret that Kern County's workforce of doctors, nurses and other health care professionals is not sufficient to fully ...

Kern County's 13-year campaign to streamline local oil and gas permitting would be given 10 years of protection from ...

Armed clashes have broken out between Thailand and Cambodia in long-disputed border areas, rapidly escalating months-long ...

Local business owner and entrepreneur David Mitchell was about as far away from Bakersfield as he could get — while still ...

A new immigration detention facility in California City is getting ready to open even as members of the public voice ...

President Donald Trump’s plan to boost artificial intelligence and build data centers across the U.S. could speed up a ...

They were icons of the 1980s, known for their outlandish exploits onstage and in the ring, who later redefined their images ...

Wall Street is hanging near its records, but the market's calm surface is hiding roiling moves underneath. The S&P 500 rose 0 ...

PARIS (AP) — French President Macron announces that France will recognize Palestine as a state. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, ...

The California Highway Patrol seeks information from the public regarding a May 11 hit-and-run incident that killed a Bakersfield man on a bicycle in Oildale.

The Kern County coroner's office on Thursday said the man who was seen going into the Kern River near Black Gulch near Bodfish on July 12 and who was found ...

The Highway Patrol Central Division will conduct a RAID operation — or Rapid Arrest of Intoxicated Drivers — Saturday throughout Kern County.