Earlier this week, I pulled my 24-year-old SUV into a Sacramento gas station for its weekly — more or less— fill-up. It was ...

For the second time this year, the Kern County Board of Education came close to passing a resolution that would have placed ...

Two local high school volleyball teams won their CIF Southern Regional playoff division match on Thursday night to advance to ...

California has long had the reputation — backed by copious data — of being a high-tax state, which made Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ...

Thousands of documents released by the House Oversight Committee offer a new glimpse into what Jeffery Epstein’s ...

Parole was denied Thursday to a 65-year-old man who was sentenced in 1998 to 83 years and four months in prison for multiple ...

Comedian Bill Burr is ready to make Bakersfield laugh — as long as you don’t record the experience. Burr’s just announced ...

After more than a month of being closed due to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, the visitor center of the ...

Natural causes killed an 86-year-old Paso Robles man found dead Aug. 21 in McKittrick, the Kern County coroner’s office reported Friday.

A man’s in-custody death in late August at Kern Medical has been attributed to a drug overdose. The Kern County coroner’s office said Raymond Vasquez Balderas, age 60, was taken to Kern Medical after ...

A 58-year-old man whose body was found Sept. 6 in Mojave died from an accidental overdose of methamphetamine, the Kern County coroner’s office.

The Kern County Fire Department warned Friday that the storm moving through the area could bring heavy rain and possible flooding in the Borel Fire burn scar.