Thursday's temperatures remain relatively similar to yesterday for most of the county, and skies clear out. By Friday, widespread triple digits are possible in the valley, desert and KRV.

A new wildfire was reported today at 1:55 p.m. in Kern County. Frazier Fire has been burning on private land. Currently, ...

As for Kern County, winds will impact the desert areas. Chief Meteorologist Ilya Neyman said, “Winds are forecast to rev up Tuesday and get very intense Tuesday afternoon, overnight and into ...

Things have gotten so bad, that CalRecycle, the state agency in charge of waste, said in February that the scale of illegal ...

So far in 2025, Bakersfield has had only 1 triple digit day, and we're likely to add on a couple more to that tally by the end of the week.

The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom. Read more on our AI policy here. A new wildfire was reported 6: ...

Among the wind turbines, solar panels and Joshua Trees are giant batteries that look like shipping containers. Tesla workers ...

This year the Kern County Cooling Center season will begin on Sunday, June 1, 2025 and end (subject to funding) on Sept. 22 ...

The 2,300-acre project has angered residents of Boron and nearby Desert Lake, two small Kern County towns where the poverty rate is twice the California average. Residents say their concerns about ...

The Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Authority meeting Wednesday kicked off with two major pieces of news: The authority will receive $50 million in federal funding that it will use to help build a ...

A group of water users in Kern County’s Indian Wells Valley who disagree ... The issue in the high desert basin is whether the Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Authority is using an appropriate ...

Two people walked away unharmed after a small airplane crashed upside down in a field in Kern County over the weekend, authorities said. What did the Kern County Fire Department find at the scene?