Court documents describe what happened after police arrived at the home of Kern County Supervisor Leticia Perez and her ...

For the first time in more than 100 years, the Kern River is headed back to the California Supreme Court where justices may ...

A 15-year-old Bakersfield girl and a 46-year-old Los Angeles man are the latest victims of the deadly Kern River, which has ...

The husband of Kern County District 5 Supervisor Leticia Perez was arrested over the weekend after allegedly making criminal ...

A Southern California family is desperately searching for their loved one, who they say went missing in the Kern River this ...

A Bakersfield teenager drowned July 8 in the Kern River south of River View Park, the Kern County coroner’s office said Tuesday. The body of 15-year-old Ester Isabel Villanueva Torres was found at ...

The Kern County Board of Supervisors approved a contract extension for the controversial Dominion Voting System. Election Integrity advocates have had complaints ...

California has six privately operated immigration detention centers. Two of these — Golden State Annex in McFarland and Mesa ...

Two former prison facilities in Kern County could soon augment the federal government’s immigrant detention capacity as the ...

Environmental groups are suing Bakersfield, demanding that the long-dry Kern River be allowed to flow through the city once again. ... which they filed Nov. 30 in Kern County Superior Court, ...

The Bakersfield Police Department said they arrested Fernando Jara the husband of Kern County Board of Supervisor Leticia ...

Fernando Jara, the husband of Kern County Supervisor Leticia Perez, was arrested at their home in northeast Bakersfield on Saturday. Jara, 49, was arrested on a ...