The Bakersfield Police Department said it removed 31 encampments along the Kern Riverbed on Wednesday. On April 23, ...

A recent study by the Public Policy Institute of California — a non-profit, non-partisan research organization — shows that ...

A local distribution operation has joined a popular wildfire-management trend by hiring goats to take care of grass that had ...

With progressive stars Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slated to make an appearance in Bakersfield on Tuesday, ...

Cynthia Zimmer, the District Attorney for Kern County, said, "Well, I think it was a mandate by the people of the state of ...

Gilbert Juarez, affectionately known as "Mr. Dimples," has captured national attention with his infectious positivity and ...

Looking for something to do this weekend? There's a lot happening across Kern County for the last weekend of April!

A spokesperson for the county confirmed that the U.S. DHHS is moving to eliminate several public health funding streams.

Part of a busy junction in Nottingham has been closed by police, and buses are diverting, after a crash on Saturday morning, ...

Cesar Hernandez, who escaped from custody months ago while serving a first degree murder sentence at Kern Valley State Prison ...

Most people see the Central Valley as all agriculture,” one paleontologist said, but it’s a rich source of prehistoric ...

Tami Mlcoch has been an integral part of the 17 News Team for a quarter century. Wednesday marks her 25th anniversary with ...