A new wildfire was reported today at 2:04 p.m. in Kern County. Angler Fire has been burning on private land for three hours.

Democrat Fire initially started 3:39 p.m. May 18 in Kern County. It has burned 1,700 acres after being active for eight days.

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation Sacramento Field Office is offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to ...

The Rotary Club of Tehachapi welcomed Richard Chapman from Kern Economic Development Corp. to the May 15 meeting.

Eight lives were taken by the Kern River in 2024, raising the total to to 342 since 1968. That total doesn't include all of ...

Drier summers and wetter winters are expanding the range of the fungus. The same conditions drive increasingly intense ...

U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids Ed Smylie, Nasa engineer whose quick thinking saved the lives of the Apollo 13 crew The ...

“The wildland-urban interface, or what we call WUI, that’s been here in Kern County for a long time,” said Chief Aaron Duncan. If you look at Frazier Park, you look at Golden Hills, Bear Valley, I ...

Every Memorial Day weekend, the Kern County Basque Festival highlights the talent of both the local community as well as the ...

The first annual report assessing Kern County’s progress in implementing and complying with the Free Speech Policy — a ...

Dramatic cuts at the federal level have left leaders of a small hospital in rural Kern County scrambling for answers. The Kern Valley Hospital District, located about 48 miles from Bakersfield in the ...