Kern County water officials are working to revise their groundwater sustainability plans by June 20 to avoid state ...

Then-new Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they ...

Three people were arrested after deputies allegedly found a gun in a vehicle during a traffic stop near McFarland. This comes ...

Prison officials are investigating an assault on an officer at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano. Early Saturday evening, a prisoner stabbed an officer with “an improvised weapon” as the incarcerated ...

The man accused of killing one woman and hurting another was in court Thursday, in connection to a South Bakersfield shooting ...

Former UFC champion Cain Velasquez has been transferred to a new facility to serve out the rest of his term for attempted ...

Another officer placed a tourniquet on the downed officer while the Director of Public Safety went after and engaged the ...

Court documents reveal new information on what happened in the deputy-involved shooting near Valley Plaza Mall.According to ...

An escaped California inmate wanted for killing the leader of an elite Mexican police unit while on the run was arrested in ...

Cesar Hernandez, a convicted L.A. County murderer who escaped from custody in California and then fled to Mexico, has been ...

The Kern County coroner's office identified the man killed during an officer-involved shooting Thursday as 22-year-old Bakersfield resident Joshua Emanuel Pritchard. A news release the agency issued ...

Cesar Hernandez, who fled a California courthouse in 2024, was captured following the death of an elite "Gringo Hunters" unit ...