Jaw Fire initially started 2:23 p.m. May 19 in Kern County. Since its discovery four days ago, it has burned 4,327 acres. As ...

The sheriff’s office and public works joined by code enforcement and animal control cleared multiple homeless encampments Friday morning.

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The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has announced upcoming roadwork and potential traffic impacts for the ...

Sheriff Donny Youngblood with the Kern County Sheriff’s Office discussed several pressing matters occurring in town such as ...

I didn’t know what to expect when Chipman Junior High school teacher Michael Hutson asked me to attend the school’s “Water ...

The big news at Shaver Lake is the 24.48-pound brown trout landed by Steve Jones of Clovis trolling a pink hoochie behind a 6 ...

Climate change is expanding the range of the fungi that causes Valley fever and which is endemic to the climate of the ...

Ashley Kern – who uses a wheelchair after being paralyzed in a shooting in 2016 –is living her dream, about six months in as ...

Things have gotten so bad, that CalRecycle, the state agency in charge of waste, said in February that the scale of illegal dumping in the high desert has become an emergency that is degrading the ...

The Kern County District Attorney's Office announced that a man has been sentenced to two years and eight months in prison ...