An update Tuesday to Kern County's election results showed challenger Kim Salas only four votes behind incumbent District 5 ...

Members of the Service Employees International Union, which represents more than 5,000 Kern County employees, said they have ...

Hikers and Kern River advocates began finding multiple dead Canada geese in and around Truxtun Lakes starting Thursday.

Criminal defendant Stephen Alan Swain was convicted Tuesday in Kern County Superior Court of assault with a semiautomatic ...

A 15-year-old boy wanted in connection with a fatal shooting at the Marketplace Sunday night surrendered to authorities Tuesday, t Police Department said in a news release.

The body of a 49-year-old Bakersfield woman was found Friday morning in Weldon, the Kern County Sheriff's Office reported Tuesday.

A 37-year-old Tehachapi man was killed Friday after the vehicle he was driving collided with a water truck in Mojave, according to a report Tuesday from the Kern County Sheriff's Office. The agency ...

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A 55-year-old at North Kern State Prison died Sunday night after being stabbed at the facility in Delano. Nick Vedol Lopez was attacked at 7:42 p.m., according to a report Tuesday from the Kern County ...

The Kern County coroner's office released the name Tuesday of a 15-year-old who died Sunday night after being shot at The Marketplace shopping center in southwest.

A motorcyclist died Friday afternoon after a crash in Delano. The Kern County Sheriff's Office reported 28-year-old Jobany Jonathan Quintero died from his injuries at the scene of the accident at 2:42 ...