Gene Bogart, who ushered in an era of new projects for the city of Bakersfield’s water department, died May 31. He was 78.

The Bakersfield Fire Department’s Water Rescue team responded to a call reporting a woman holding onto a branch made at River ...

The Bakersfield Fire Department (BFD) helped rescue a 45-year-old woman from the Kern River near Hart Park Monday evening.

While snow isn’t expected with this storm, the Kern River Valley should be on the lookout for street flooding, especially in areas with poor drainage. Towards the canyon, there can be rockslides ...

During the summers of 2018-2021, the researchers collected fish from 18 lakes in the Wind Rivers previously stocked with Yellowstone cutthroat trout, which come from northwest Wyoming, and golden ...

Environmental activists in Bakersfield have won an initial victory in their legal fight to keep water flowing in the Kern River, which for many years was reduced to a dry, sandy riverbed.

which come originally from the Kern River drainage in California but were first stocked in the Wind Rivers in the early 1900s. The lakes included fish populations that were started decades ago as ...

After a bone-dry beginning to the 2024-25 Water Year, the Kern River Basin welcomed a powerful Thanksgiving Day storm that filled the Army Corps rain cup at Isabella Dam with 2.50” of precipitation.

The Swifwater Rescue Team recovered the body in the Ant Canyon area of the Kern River, deputies said. Deputies were assisted by the Tulare County Fire Department and the Kern County Sheriff’s ...

Aug. 28—To call 2023 an unusual water year in the Kern River Basin would be a serious understatement. "It was the most abnormal water year you could possibly have," said Evan Moore of Sierra ...

Gene Bogart, who ushered in an era of new projects for the City of Bakersfield’s water department, died May 31. He was 78.