The 80th season of dirt track racing in Bakersfield and Kern County is set to be a landmark one as Bakersfield Speedway and ...

Ventura County evacuation areas as a result of the Hughes Fire just north of Castaic Lake will be in place overnight from ...

All executive team members of a Bakersfield-based company called Unleashed are still teenagers, yet their creation is gaining ...

Coverage of the Hughes, Sepulveda and Laguna fires in Southern California during a fourth consecutive day of red flag fire ...

Chantelia Johnson alleges that a staff member at Wingland Elementary assaulted her daughter by yanking her arm. Standard School District and KCSO say they have reviewed the incident.

Arguments in a case challenging the results of a Greenfield Union School District Board of Trustees seat are set to be heard Jan. 31, as officials try to fix an acknowledged error. Kern County ...

More than 4,300 homes and businesses in west and northwest Bakersfield are without power due to an maintenance outage. According to an outage map from PG&E, ...

As LA firefighters continue to battle the blazes, here’s what you can do for the thousands of people impacted, wherever you ...

There's almost no telling what 2025 has in store. But based on what happened locally last year, things are likely to occur that may generate news around Kern County.

We lost trailblazing educator Kelly Blanton, who rose from humble Dust Bowl roots to become a visionary Superintendent of Kern County schools. We’ll miss people whose love for their community was ...

Angela Katherine Kern, 58, of Portersville, passed away Friday evening, Dec. 27, 2024, at the Butler Memorial Hospital following an illness. Born May 26, 1966, in Butler, she was the daughter of the ...

ALAMDEA CO., Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — During a press conference touting California's progress on tackling crime, Governor Gavin Newsom took jabs at Bakersfield and Kern County, calling the area the ...