A 46-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stabbing and killing a woman in east Bakersfield earlier this week.The ...

Kevin Langston. Another inmate, Kevin T. Langston, who was housed in the same cell, was removed and placed in restricted housing pending an investigation by the NKSP Investigative Services Unit and ...

The Office of the Inspector General was notified, and the Kern County Coroner will determine Mendez’s official cause of death. Mendez, 46, was received from Riverside County on Dec. 2, 2004. He ...

On July 2, 2025, a coordinated operation by the Kern County District Attorney’s Office and the California Department of ...

The nine highest-paid Kern County employees in 2024 were Kern County Firefighters, according to State Controller Malia M. Cohen.

A Tehachapi man is being held without bail in Kern County Jail as officials continue the investigation into a homicide discovered June 13. According to Lori Meza, information officer for the Kern ...

The 13-year, $68 million effort to put Kern oil permitting in local hands is headed back to the courts after the county Board ...