The temperature in Bakersfield peaked at 96° on Wednesday, slightly below the average of 98°. A smoky haze has settled in ...

A Kern County firefighter who beat cancer twice reported for duty Wednesday morning at Station 46 in Lamont. Randy Raymond ...

An immense solar-plus-storage power plant in the desert is now pumping out inexpensive clean electricity at full bore.

A Kern County firefighter is returning to work after overcoming cancer not once, but twice. Randy Raymond, who was first ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 5:30 p.m. in Kern County, California. The wildfire has been burning on private land.

Kern County Search and Rescue has expanded its team with the addition of three new K-9 members, enhancing their efforts to ...

First discovered: 5 p.m. Aug. 4 A new wildfire was reported today at 5 p.m. in Kern County, California. Fuller Fire has been ...

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

Kern County released a statement announcing “strong support” for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed bill that would make the ...

And summer’s not over. “On June 12 this year, we had already seen more acres burned in Kern County than all of 2023 combined,” said Capt. Andrew Freeborn with the Kern County Fire Department.

Good morning. It’s Thursday, Dec. 21. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. As Kern County officials embrace a warehouse boom, some brace for even worse air Malibu’s PCH is set for ...