A new wildfire was reported today at 1:33 p.m. in Kern County, California. Welch Fire has been burning on private land. At ...

No new lawsuits have been filed against Kern County’s revisions to its zoning ordinance to resume oil and gas permitting, but ...

Beloved actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were saddled with credit card debt at the time of their tragic deaths ...

Initial location: Kern County, Calif. A new wildfire was reported today at 12:25 p.m. in Kern County, California. Blue Fire ...

The Kern County Fair said on social media Thursday that they are monitoring a scam from a person posing as a staff member who is emailing possible vendors for ...

A 67-year-old man, who has yet to be identified, died while in custody of the Kern County Sheriff’s Office, officials said.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Kern County supervisors have approved significant cuts to the county’s public health department. They ...

Amid ongoing uncertainty over federal funding of local health services, a project to prevent suicide and substance use among Native American youth in Kern County could be scaled back, or possibly ...

Kern County Information Technology Services (ITS) will be migrating Accela from a county-hosted system to the cloud starting ...

Latest Kern County, California and US and world news from 23ABC in Bakersfield, Calif. Ozempic maker crashes as it loses ...

A massive 8.8 earthquake in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunamis across the Pacific — prompting local experts to explain what it means for California.

Latest Kern County, California and US and world news from 23ABC in Bakersfield, Calif. 8.7 magnitude earthquake prompts ...