A Kern County firefighter who was sent to help battle the now 5,370-acre Canyon Fire was hospitalized with major injuries ...

Kern County Man Indicted for Illegally Possessing 50 Pounds of Explosives, Ammo, and for Manufacturing Meth in Bakersfield ...

A Kern County Fire battalion chief suffered serious injuries Friday evening when the pickup he was driving rolled over in the ...

The Kern County fire chief was near the Canyon Fire when the vehicle rolled nearly 200 feet down a Castaic cliff.

An immense solar-plus-storage power plant in the desert is now pumping out inexpensive clean electricity at full bore.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Kern County supervisors have approved significant cuts to the county’s public health department. They ...

More than 4,000 backpacks were distributed to Kern County students at the annual health and wellness fair, helping families ...

During the service of the warrant, detectives located and arrested 24-year-old Chase Anderson. Anderson was booked into the ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 5:30 p.m. in Kern County, California. The wildfire has been burning on private land.

Kern County Search and Rescue has expanded its team with the addition of three new K-9 members, enhancing their efforts to ...

First discovered: 4:59 p.m. Aug. 3 A new wildfire was reported today at 4:59 p.m. in Kern County, California. Piute Fire has ...

And summer’s not over. “On June 12 this year, we had already seen more acres burned in Kern County than all of 2023 combined,” said Capt. Andrew Freeborn with the Kern County Fire Department.