Maya Hernandez, charged with involuntary manslaughter after her 1-year-old son died after being left in a hot car in Bakersfield, is due in court Tuesday morning ...

Central California prepares for its fifth day of a heat wave, peaking at 101° in Bakersfield on Tuesday. Cooler temperatures and breezy winds are expected Wednesday.

Arizona senators press Trump Cabinet secretary on response to Grand Canyon wildfire Group of California farm workers announce ...

The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the community's assistance in locating an at-risk missing adult. Brenda Jacquelin Reyes is considered at risk due to mental illness. Reyes was last seen ...

Immigrants arrested by ICE are held, usually for many months, in sites that are even less subject to outside inspection or ...

Bakersfield tax preparer admits guilt in $25 million tax fraud scheme involving stolen identities and fake businesses, facing ...

Amtrak's San Joaquins train service has to cancel trips from Oakland to Bakersfield and back Tuesday morning because of engine failure on a train, according to the train agency.

After traveling across the country advocating for change against local government officials. Organizers host a rally to ...

Two former prison facilities in Kern County could soon augment the federal government’s immigrant detention capacity as the ...

The Kern County Coroner’s Office identified a man who died after an explosion that occurred while manufacturing black powder ...

A 79-year-old man who accidentally drowned in a home pool in June was identified as Jose Garcia Rodriguez Jr., of Bakersfield ...

The death of a 73-year-old Bakersfield man whose body was found June 20 in a residential pool in the 3700 block of Granada Avenue has been ruled an accident by ...