A tree trimmer died after being trapped under palm fronds in east Bakersfield late Thursday evening.The Kern County Fire Department said on Thursday afternoon a ...

A 20-year-old man died around 3 a.m. Sunday at Mercy Hospital after he was assaulted round 2:15 a.m. in the 15000 block of Stone River Court in northwest Bakersfield, according to the Kern County ...

An 8-year-old child died of his injuries after he was struck by a vehicle near a school Wednesday in central Bakersfield, ...

A preliminary hearing was set for Monday in the case of the man accused of drunk driving into a crowd of people minutes ...

He was surrounded by his loving family. He is survived by his children Diane Hover of Binghamton, Thomas Punako of Bakersfield, CA. Sonya (Ken) Hildebrandt of Vestal and Nancy Mastry of Vinton ...

The wife of a pilot who suffered a medical emergency took over flying and managed to safely land the plane in California, authorities said.

Find out how to live stream the Foothill High School - Bakersfield vs. West High School - Bakersfield football game on ...

They are headed now to training camp with the American Hockey League's Bakersfield Condors. Condors camp begins Monday, and they'll be joined there by Komets coach Jesse Kallechy and assistant ...

Bakersfield relies primarily on agriculture, petroleum extraction and refining, as well as manufacturing as its major economic staples. The city has a number of cultural assets including the Kern ...

He worked at the Bakersfield Californian, covering cockfighting ("residents are crying foul about crying fowl") and other news stories; the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk; and the Gazette in ...

While conducting biological surveys along the Kern River in Bakersfield, they have seen water retreat into stagnant pools and then vanish, leaving stretches of bare sand and cracked mud.