A somewhat new groundwater authority held its first meeting Monday with a mandate to represent Kern County lands not ... left blank on color-coded water district maps). It has about 36,000 acres ...

Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta is backing environmentalists in a legal fight over the Kern River, after thousands of fish died when the ...

In a significant legal push to protect California’s waterways, Attorney General Rob Bonta has joined forces with the ...

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Siona Harper Huyck knows her bid for a seat on the Kern County Water Agency in this November’s election is a long shot. The education and health consultant doesn’t know a lot about water ...

That decision effectively allowed for the river to dry up while the case is pending in Kern County Superior Court, said William McKinnon, a lawyer for the group Water Audit California, one of the ...

Recent data suggests the years-long decline in Kern farmland ... of the county as farmers who sat out the downturn suddenly reenter the market. Prices for ag property in water districts with ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Kern County Sheriff’s Office said conditions of the water in the Kern River near Highway 178 were too dangerous to recover a submerged vehicle Tuesday afternoon.

California officials have joined a legal effort to restore water to the Kern River after ... and dried up while the case is pending in Kern County Superior Court. The attorney general's office ...

California officials have joined a legal effort to restore water to the Kern River after an abrupt shutoff of water dried up the river and killed thousands of fish in Bakersfield. The decision by ...

California officials have joined a legal effort to restore water to the Kern River after an abrupt shutoff ... the river to be drained and dried up while the case is pending in Kern County Superior ...