A new wildfire was reported today at 1:44 p.m. in Kern County. Wheeler Fire has been burning on private land. Currently, ...

But others are helping as well – including the Kern County Fire Department, which is now one of about 80 organizations in the ...

The Kern County Probation Department received funds for an intensive probation supervision program for high-risk DUI ...

The California Highway Patrol Bakersfield Area office will use grant funding to implement a regional traffic safety campaign ...

In a new analysis of California crime statistics, San Joaquin County has been identified as the state's most dangerous county ...

The fire ultimately burned roughly 60,000 acres, making it the largest in Kern County history ... soil burn severity map ...

As of Friday, Cal Fire reported 11 fires over 1,000 acres, including a 178,090 acre fire in Northern California and a 38,664 ...

This week on Kern County In Depth, we examine the far-reaching implications of children growing up in a screen-saturated world. Two new laws were signed in just the past week in California ...

A spate of notable quakes have rattled Southern California in recent months — a reminder that the last three decades of ...

State corrections officials have launched a homicide investigation after a convicted killer from Alameda County died following ... was found in his cell at Kern Valley State Prison around 7: ...

Among the biggest challenges is establishing policies in this quickly evolving area of technology ... my school district and eventually the county (Fourth District) PTA. I currently serve on ...