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California gets an "F" when it comes to government spending transparency. That's according to a recent report b...
Seniors can tune up their driving skills with some help from the California Highway Patrol.It's estimated there will be m...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The company that operates a Bakersfield elder care facility where a woman died after being denied C...
Contractor Marvin Dean has announced his candidacy for the Ward One Bakersfield City Council seat. A special election will be...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A new poll finds growing support for gun and ammunition controls among California voters, particula...
A suspected rapist accused of sexually assaulting a woman he met on ChristianMingle.com may have used the dating site to prey...
On Tuesday, January 29, Kern County Supervisors appointed Konrad Moore as Public Defender. Moore had served as Interim Public...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Jerry Brown is coming off a year of political success in which he shepherded a voter-approved ...
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - A family-owned turkey plant in Fresno that recently filed for bankruptcy will remain in the hands of th...
BERLIN (AP) - Arnold Schwarzenegger is quoted in an interview in Germany's top-selling newspaper saying he's still in...
LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) - Conrad Bain, who starred as the kindly white adoptive father of two young African-American brothers ...
A California study shows driver's licenses for illegal immigrants would make streets safer. The DMV report says unlicense...
The Bakersfield Police Department needs your help in identifying a man who they say tried to lure a child inside a car.In ear...
TAFT, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say a boy who fired on classmates and wounded one at a rural California high school had plann...
A missing child alert has been canceled for a 13-year old Bakersfield girl. Celeste Gonzalez has been found safe. She was rep...
PORTERVILLE, Calif. (AP) - Authorities confirm a fifth death in a shooting of tribal members on an Indian reservation in Tula...
Jerry DoyleLive Weekdays 9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m."I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on W...
Michael SavageLIVE Weekdays 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.Dr. Michael Savage is a multimedia icon in the conservative movement, heard...
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) - A preliminary hearing is under way for the Northern California teenager accused of stealing celebri...
About The Jerry Doyle Show"I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starrin...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - San Francisco is getting a new Roman Catholic archbishop, and a lot of eyes will be on the priest who wi...
FOWLER, Calif. (AP) - Three men who weren't wearing seatbelts are dead after their car ran a stop sign in rural Central C...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California's unemployment rate slipped a little in August to 10.6 percent, down from 10.7 perce...
CRESCENT CITY, Calif. (AP) - A Northern California mixed-martial artist accused of ripping out his friend's heart and rem...
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Clint Eastwood says he achieved what he sought to do when he appeared at the Republican National Conventio...
HURON, Calif. (AP) - Seismologists say today's earthquakes in Southern and Central California are not on the San Andreas ...
Love those little green nuts? Kern County grows 44% of all the pistachios grown in California, boasting over 63,000 acres of ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Nannies, housekeepers, child care providers and caregivers in California would have to be paid over...
The Central California Better Business Bureau in partnership with theKern County Fire Department is pleased to bring you"Exti...
CARSON, Calif. (AP) - A 3-month-old kitten appears alert after traveling from Shanghai to Los Angeles in a freight container ...
WILLOW CREEK, Calif. (AP) - Earthquakes are shaking southern and northern regions of California.A U.S. Geological Survey comp...
Betting on Californiamade a stop inBakersfield. Local leaders, supporters and small business owners met at the Bakersfield La...
Pacific International Marketing is voluntarily recalling cases of bulk romaine lettuce because of possible salmonella contami...
A new poll by the Californians for Population Stabilization finds that 61 percent of Californians say they are less likely to...
Santa Monica, CA – Hyundai Motor America misled consumers about the gas mileage of the 2011 and 2012 Elantra through a ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Scott Peterson on Thursday filed the automatic appeal of his 2004 death sentence to the California Supre...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California will become the first stateto write into law much of the national mortgage settlementneg...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a newbudget for California that relies heavily on voters approving hisp...
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - The president of the University ofCalifornia will not request a hike in tuition. UC Regents had been e...
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) - The Crystal Cathedral made famous bythe televangelist program the "Hour of Power" will ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - State legislators are set to vote nextweek on bills that backers say would make California the firs...
Kevin Harvick will pilot Chassis No. 112 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Nationwide Series stable in the Bluegrass S...
GORMAN, Calif. (AP) - A nearly 700-acre brushfire is burningnorth of Los Angeles but authorities say no homes are threateneda...
UKIAH, Calif. (AP) - Two minor earthquakes have shaken NorthernCalifornia. A U.S. Geological Survey computer-generated report...
California utility regulators have signaledthey will launch an investigation later this year into the troubledSan Onofre nucl...
A local animal rescue operation is in need of donations to help pay for gasoline as they take animals to their new homes, oft...
The American Red Cross has opened a shelter at Lake Isabella Senior Center, 6409 Lake Isabella to assist those affected by th...
Gasoline prices dropped seven cents in the last week. The national average is now down to $3.50 a gallon. In California, ...
A 70-year-old Kern County woman is the first confirmed case of human West Nile Virus in California this year.Officials with t...
A State Senator from Bakersfield isn't happy with Friday's budget vote. Republican Jean Fuller says the package passe...
Kern County supervisors did not violate California's open meeting law when they met behind closed doors 15 times in the f...
California's unemployment rate dippedslightly in May to 10.8 percent, down from 10.9 percent theprevious month. Last mont...
A research firm says California home salessoared last month as more expensive properties drew strong interestfrom buyers. Dat...
California is the nation's leader in welfare recipients. In Kern County more than 52,000 people are in the welfare-to-wor...
Controversy continues over last week's passage of Measure G, which limits where medicinal marijuana cooperatives can be l...
California will be one of the first states in the country to receive money to help fight distracted driving. It's part of...
The man who would be President comes to Bakersfield. Republican candidate Mitt Romney made a quick stop in town Wednesday as ...
FEBRUARY 14, 2012 -- Why was a McFarland, Calif. principal walking around in a ballerina costume on Tuesday?Smith Efada was k...
FEBRUARY 14, 2012 -- Asbestos was found at another water pumping plant near the Grapevine.KERO said tests at the Wheeler Ridg...
FEBRUARY 14, 2012 -- Mayor Harvey Hall makes it official as he files papers to run for a fourth term as Bakersfield Mayor.At ...
FEBRUARY 14, 2012 -- Hundreds of people were shaken following an earthquake that struck the Northern California coast.The U.S...
FEBRUARY 14, 2012 -- A Lamont, Calif. man could get four years in prison for growing marijuana on public land.The U.S. Attorn...
FEBRUARY 14, 2012 -- A firefighter received a minor injury at a mobile home fire in Rosamond, Calif. on Monday.According to t...
FEBRUARY 14, 2012 -- A suspicious fire broke out, burning a vacant home in McFarland, Calif. on Monday evening.According to t...
FEBRUARY 13, 2012 -- An RV caught fire behind a home in Wasco, Calif. No one was hurt, though the person living in it was dis...
FEBRUARY 13, 2012 -- Firefighters tackled a mobile home blaze in Wofford Heights, Calif. on Sunday.According to the Kern Coun...
FEBRUARY 13, 2012 -- A Delano, Calif. man had to be rescued from an elevator.According to the Kern County Fire Department, fi...
FEBRUARY 13, 2012 -- Two juvenile suspects are still on the loose after a car pursuit from Bakersfield to Lamont, Calif. A th...
FEBRUARY 13, 2012 -- Bakersfield is in California's top six when it comes to solar energy.PG&E made the announcement on F...
FEBRUARY 13, 2012 -- Two history-making pilots are featured guests at this year's Minter Field Founder's Day Banquet....
FEBRUARY 13, 2012 -- Kern County is getting a big boost to improve public transit and air quality.Caltrans awarded nearly ...
FEBRUARY 13, 2012 -- By this time next year, we could see huge changes to the structure of the California State Legislature i...
FEBRUARY 9, 2012 -- Some of the world's best cyclists are coming to Bakersfield for America's biggest bike event, the...
FEBRUARY 8, 2012 -- County leaders gave the thumbs-down to the bullet train.The Kern County Board of Supervisors voted agains...
FEBRUARY 8, 2012 -- An Oildale, Calif. man is recovering from a stabbing.It happened around 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 1311 Wa...
FEBRUARY 8, 2012 -- A retiring Kern County Supervisor is looking for future employment.Jon McQuiston told the Bakersfield Cal...
FEBRUARY 8, 2012 -- Kern County fire investigators are searching for clues to determine the cause of a house fire in Oildale,...
FEBRUARY 7, 2012 -- Two Lamont, Calif. men were busted on drug charges Monday.According to the Kern County Sheriff's Offi...
FEBRUARY 7, 2012 -- Two Kern County continuation schools are singled out for excellence.State Superintendent Tom Torlakson re...
FEBRUARY 6, 2012 -- The March trial of a former Bakersfield cop in jail on child pornography charges was postoned because he ...
FEBRUARY 6, 2012 -- Bakersfield is one of several cities in California to make it on the top ten list of worst cities for fin...
FEBRUARY 6, 2012 -- A pickup truck smashed into two children in Taft, Calif. on Sunday.A driver in a raised Ford F-250 pickup...
FEBRUARY 6, 2012 -- A head-on collision in Oildale, Calif. sent a Bakersfield man through a windshield. He survived.The Calif...
FEBRUARY 3, 2012 -- A Delano, Calif. man has been charged with kidpapping and attempted rape.Police were called about 5:30 a....
FEBRUARY 3, 2012 -- Will Kern County's Board of Supervisors give the thumbs-down to the bullet train?Supervisors are sche...
FEBRUARY 2, 2012 -- Two people are safe Thursday after being rescued in Kernville, Calif.Little information has been released...
FEBRUARY 2, 2012 -- A floor furnace was likely to blame in a Tehachapi, Calif. house fire on Wednesday that killed 3 dogs and...
FEBRUARY 1, 2012 - Could a local man suspected of murder have gotten away with it if only he maintained his automobile?Danny ...
FEBRUARY 1, 2012 -- A newspaper delivery man had his car stolen in East Bakersfield from a mini mart.According to the Bakersf...
JANUARY 31, 2012 -- Officials are worried about West Nile virus after new pesticide ban.A new regulation banning the use of m...
JANUARY 31, 2012 -- Worries remain concerning Californian's snowpack.State water officials said recent storms have not ma...
JANUARY 31, 2012 -- Noemi Mendoza, a Delano, Calif. mother, has been arrested in connection with thedeath of her 2-year-old b...
JANUARY 30, 2012 -- A 51-year-old Weldon, Calif. man was arrested on Sunday for the death of a man, whose body was discovered...
JANUARY 30, 2012 -- Two people escaped a burning apartment in Mojave, Calif. early Monday morning.According to the Kern Count...
JANUARY 28, 2012 -- A robbery suspect who pulled a knife on a Rite Aid employee in Oildale, Calif. has been arrested.Accordin...
JANUARY 27, 2012 -- A California auto thief who boasts 1,000 heists in less than a year hasbeen placed on probation rather th...
JANUARY 27, 2012 -- Is Christoph Buchel the next Christo-like artist to create art for Kern County travelers to check out?The...
A Fresno, Calif. woman's murderous rampage was fueled by drugs.Reports indicate that a Fresno woman who fatally shot thre...
The State of California has refused to sign a mortgage agreement.California state officials are refusing to sign a proposed s...
Kern County Sheriff's Office homicide investogators are looking into the death of a 3-year-old Taft, Calif. girl who died...
Tragedy in eastern Kern as a 12-year-old girl is killed by a train in Boron, Calif.Sheriff's deputies at the Boron substa...
A German shepherd puppy rescued from the Kern County Animal Shelter two years ago soon disappeared from his Taft, Calif. home...
People in Bakersfield and other places affected by California's proposed bullet train can now start collecting signatures...
Country music legend Merle Haggard is still sidelined with pneumonia in a Georgia hospital.Facing medical problems, Merle Hag...
A North Hollywood man died in a crash near Tulare, Calif., while a Bakersfield man and his passenger were injured.The Califor...
A man who was stopped in Delano, Calif. had meth hidden in his clothing, and ammunition and a fake grenade in his car, accord...
A male inmate awaiting trial died at Lerdo Prison in Shafter, Calif.According to the Kern County Sheriff's Office, on Sat...
State and local air pollution districts in California's Central Valley must come up with a new plan to meet ozone emission st...
State and local air pollution districts in California's Central Valley must come up with a new plan to meet ozone emission st...
The race for a local assembly seat is heating up.Another candidate has tossed her hat into the proverbial political ring. Acc...
Some old military ammo turned up at a home in Wasco, Calif. According to the Kern County Sheriff's Office, deputies got a ca...
The agriculture industry is relieved they're finally getting some water from Mother Nature.Recent freezing temperatures and d...
Two men are set to embark on an epic road trip that will take them across the U.S. as they plan to ride straight into the hea...
A family of five is recovering from a house fire in McFarland,Calif. Kern County Fire Captain Derek Tisinger told KERN Radio...
Why don't people in Kern County ride bikes more often? And why aren't Kern County roadways as bicycle friendly as they could...
A wildfire that started on Wednesday is still burning Thursday near Lake of the Woods, Calif.According to the Kern County Fir...
Merle Haggard is reportedly sidlelined with pneumonia. KERO reported the 74-year-old country legend is in a Macon, Georgia ho...
A judge is giving California until the end of the week to defend the state's research process used to approve a controversial...
Wasco, Calif. city officials gave the thumbs-down to high-speed rail. The Wasco City Council on Tuesday voted three to zero ...
Fire crews were busy on Tuesday, battling three residential fires in eastern Kern County. One resident was injured.According ...
A dozen hungry horses rescued in Randsburg,Calif. last week are being nursed back to health in Tehachapi,Calif. Marley's Mut...
A Bakersfield mother charged with stabbing her baby was sentenced on Tuesday to nine months in jail and five years probation....
Few details are available after a Shafter,Calif. man died following an officer-involved shooting. The shooting happened in th...
A legendary Mojave customizer is one of nine invited to make hot rods of out of 1932 Ford pedal cars. Gene Winfield's work w...
A new Board is rolled out Feb. 4 when the Kern County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce holds its installation dinner at the downt...
Welfare recipients may be given an ultimatum: get a job or lose some benefits.Californian State Gov. Jerry Brown is clamping ...
Kern County Search & Rescue was called out for a supposed missing mentally handicapped Ridgecrest, Calif. man, who was later ...
A fire at a vacant home in Taft, Calif. on Sunday is still under investigation.According to the Kern County Fire Department, ...
Kern County redevelopment agencies could live a bit longer with a bill co-authored by California State Sen. Michael Rubio. F...
Clean energy is getting a boost in the Golden State. California State Govern Jerry Brown has unveiled a new agreement to boos...
A car chase from Wasco, Calif. to Tulare, Calif. on Thursday ended after a spike strip was deployed. A 28-year-old San Franci...
A man was was shot multiple times on K Street in Mojave, Calif.According to the Kern County Sheriff's Office, at about 9:20 p...
A self-proclaimed Kern County "animal rescuer" is out of jail just days after being arrested. Officials said 61-yea...
Warning shots and tear gas were fired Wednesday to quell a riot at Kern Valley Prison near Delano, Calif.Lieutenant Jeff Smit...
More details are out about a high-speed chase a week ago. The Kern County Sheriff's Office said the Jan. 6 incident started ...
News concerning state finances is worse than expected.California's nonpartisan budget analyst is giving a more sober projecti...
A new satellite campus for Bakersfield College has been proposed for the Arvin, Calif. area, one of the least educated areas ...
A local TV station has reported gas prices in Bakersfield to be lowest in the state of California.KERO said the average U.S. ...
Church Inc, the Oildale, Calif. church that created a tent encampment of Kern River homeless, is moving closer to the county ...
Hundreds of animals were rescued from a so-called shelter west of Rosamond, Calif.The Bakersfield Californian reported Kern C...
Mayor Harvey Hall is an advocate for ending homelessness in Bakersfield. But has enough been done?Mayor Harvey Hall appeared ...
An autopsy is being done on a truck driver who died Saturday morning after crashing near California City. The California High...
A guilty plea in a Kern County pot growing case. The U.S. Attorney's Office said Maria Rivera of Exeter, Calif. made the ple...
A 24-year-old man was killed early Monday when his motorcycle slammed into a vehicle in north Bakersfield.On 1/9/12, at about...
Bakersfield's Christmas trees, having fulfilled their holiday destinies, are now being used creatively in and around Kern Cou...
Two new bills on recalculating prevailing wages are before the State of California. What could this mean for your pocketbook?...
Kern County Sheriff's Office officials said they are searching for a man accused of stabbing his nephew in the face with a st...
A man died last week after he was run over by a skip loader at an almond factory in Buttonwillow, Calif.Cal OSHA is investiga...
The Bakersfield Police Department needs help identifying a suspect wanted for credit card fraud. On Nov, 1, 2011, a man depic...
Whooping cough has reached epidemic levels? It has according to the latest guest on Kern Radio, News Talk 1180.Registered Nur...
From tanning beds to hammerhead sharks, California has hundreds of new laws that may affect you.The new year brings 750-plus ...
A Local service will be held Saturday for two Bakersfield siblings found dead New Year's day in a San Diego, Calif. shooting...
A 25-year-old man was arrested after he rolled a stolen truck near Taft, Calif. on Monday.According to the Kern County Sherif...
A Bakersfield man was busted while fleeing a Pismo Beach, Calif. carjacking, according to the San Luis Obispo Tribune. The Sa...
An Oildale, Calif. man was shot dead in a garage, according to the Kern CountySheriff's Department.Kern County Sheriff's de...
Police say to drive safe with New Year's, adding, they will be cracking down on potential deadly motorists.The Bakersfield Po...
Pesticide use throughout California farms has risen.State officials said pesticide use in California rose in 2010 after decli...
California growers are spending millions fighting damaging frost.Citrus growers in California's San Joaquin Valley have spent...
The government wants to know what you think about a local postal annex. The U.S Postal Service is looking to close 252 proces...
A lucky family of eight escaped uninjured when their Delano, Calif. home with no smoke alarms caught fire early Wednesday mor...
The body of a local soldier from New Cuyama, Calif. killed in the War on Terror was flown into Meadows Field on Monday. The ...
A 22-year-old man in Inyokern, Calif. suffered burns during a fire. According to the Kern County Fire Department, a fire bro...
Kern County Fire Department crews were busy Thursday night and Friday morning, receiving three structure fire calls in Delano...
Their ATV rolled down a mountain -- that's what killed two adventurers from Santa Barbara, Calif. in remote eastern Kern Coun...
Autopsy results are in for a Tehachapi, Calif. man.The Kern County Coroner said on Thursday that Steven Matyas died from a gu...
Safe drinking water is at the top of the holiday wish list for some Californians. For years, residents of Seville, Calif. and...
An Oildale, Calif. family came home Tuesday to find an upside down cross and the numbers 666 painted on their garage door.For...
Some serious injuries for a Shafter, Calif. man.The Highway Patrol said 32-year-old Ranulfo Rosas was driving westbound on Se...
A Taft, Calif. motorist who was busted on drug charges also had $3,000 in cash.According to the Kern County Sheriff's Off...
Two small earthquakes jolted Southern and Central California Monday and Tuesday. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said a mag...
A lack of tax revenues means California's Medi-Cal program is about to take a hit of $15 million. Even though state reven...
A loss of power has dirtied beaches with sewage along California's central coast.A power outage has sent about 10,000 gallons...
A new political party will appear on California's presidential election ballot next year. Secretary of State Debra Bowen said...
Two Lamont, Calif. area gang members were arrested after a short pursuit in a stolen car early Tuesday morning.According to t...
Last month's 13.4 percent unemployment rate in Kern County is the lowest it's been in two years. But will it continue to drop...
Three adults and two children escaped injury when a Taft, Calif. attic caught on fire Monday morning. One firefighter was inj...
Bakersfield Police Department officials said 43 people have been arrested statewide in California DUI crackdowns.Police offic...
A Frazier Park, Calif. man seen on school grounds with a gun, was later busted on weapons charges.According to the Kern Count...
A search continued early Monday morning for two missing men near Randsburg, Calif., who were last seen on an ATV.According to...
There's a new lawman in the west Kern town of Maricopa, Calif. and he wears a sheriff's star. The Kern County Sheriff's Offi...
One person was rescued from a duplex fire on Thursday in Oildale, Calif.Kern County Fire Department officials said they recei...
State educators are not happy with California State Gov. Jerry Brown's budget plan.Educators throughout California said they'...
Is high-speed rail a pipe dream? And what should be done about California's High-Speed Rail Project?Should billions of dollar...
The Bakersfield City Council will be talking about many items in their Wednesday night meeting, including high-speed rail and...
A local dairy and other farmland were proposed as solutions to the looming waste water crisis in Lamont, Calif. State Senator...
California schools and social services are likely to take a hit if Gov. Jerry Brown has his way.Gov. Jerry Brown said Califor...
Fifteen out of every 1,000 students are expelled in Kern County? A report has claimed that Kern County student expulsion rate...
A teen was among four people arrested in Rosamond, Calif. on various weapons, drugs and theft charges during a stolen car inv...
An investigation continues after a home-built plane crashed near Mojave, Calif. leaving a man dead. Investigators from the Fe...
A woman formerly from Bakersfield was crushed to death in a CSULong Beach campus elevator.The accident happened Wednesday at ...
Two arrests were made in a McFarland, Calif. home invasion.Less than twelve hours after a family was robbed on Lockwood Avenu...
Was an Oildale, Calif. man shot while walking down a street, at a home, or otherwise on Thursday?Sheriff's officials want to ...
Will California's controversial high-speed rail project falter before it even gets started?A new Field Poll finds nearly two-...
Local physician Brenda Steinberg is under investigation by the Medical Board of California for alleged fraud and forged presc...
A Bakersfield man crashed his vehicle into a pedestrian on a busy Oildale, Calif. thoroughfare.Officials said 27-year-old Osc...
Centennial High School will represent Kern County in the 2011-2012 California "We the People: The Citizen and the Consti...
You now have a chance to see the California State Environmental Report for the proposed three-courtoom facility for Delano, C...
Kern County sheriff's investigators are trying to determine what caused the death of a Tehachapi, Calif. man found dead insid...
A central California almond and grape grower has been ordered to pay nearly $1 million in a settlement with farmworkers f...
The State of California has given Kern county over $10.8 million to do a so-called prison realignment. But now prisoners ...
Are you a grinch? Doesn't matter. Get your Santa hats, blankets, chairs and hot cocoa ready for the Bakersfield Christmas Par...
An El Cajon, Calif. man died Monday after turning in front of a big-rig south of Bakersfield. The California Highway Patrol ...
A secretive unmanned space plane designed for re-entry like the Space Shuttle is staying in orbit a little longer. An experim...
A man shot at his wife as she left their Lebec, Calif. home during an argument early Monday. He was later arrested.According ...
Should solar farms be erected on pristine farmland? Lois Henry from the Bakersfield Californian appeared on The Scott Cox Sho...
The holidays are here. Will you eat until you puke?Will you taste those yams your family always burns? How about a parade?May...
Shots rung out Saturday night and a Lamont, Calif. man is in jail on attempted murder charges. According to the Kern County S...
Shots rung out in the small eastern Kern County town of Rosamond, Calif.According to the Kern County Sheriff's Office, deputi...
Two people are now homeless after a fire engulfed their Oildale, Calif. home on Tuesday.According to the Kern County Fire Dep...
A man from Wasco, Calif. was shot to death in the state of Washington in the Spokane area. KERO reported a Colville Police o...
A family of four was displaced by a fire on Monday in Delano, Calif.According to the Kern County Fire Department, on Nov. 14 ...
Two men from Lamont, Calif., were arrested after law enforcement found evidence of methamphetamine sales during a search warr...
An 11-year-old boy was returned safely to his mother after being kidnapped from his Lamont, Calif., home. Kern County Sheriff...
Consumers are at war with banks, but there is someone who knows all the rules to the games the banks play in the state of Cal...
A home in Oildale, Calif., was ablaze early Thursday morning.Twenty-one firefighters from the Kern County Fire Department and...
While no trash statistics were probably figured into Bakersfield's recent dirty town listing, at least two local women have d...
A local woman hit a $50,000 jackpot at Eagle Mountain Casino. Mildred Mettler of Shafter, Calif. said she got weak in the...
A local lawmaker described California's bullet train as a "high-priced boondoggle." Republican Assembly member Sha...
Bakersfield residents have another chance to sound off about California's High-Speed Rail Project.Tuesday night, residents ar...
AUDIO:California's nearly two million veterans are being offered a chance to brush up on their driving skills for free. A.A.R...
Two men pleaded guilty to charges related to an illegal marijuana operation at southeast Bakersfield warehouse.On Monday, Nov...
Detectives are investigating the death of a 5-week-old boy found not breathing in his Oildale, Calif., home.On Monday, Nov. 7...
Fire torched an apartment complex in Arvin, Calif. According to the Kern County Fire Department, the call came in around 5:3...
A local doctor has been indicted for illegal distribution of painkillers.United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced ...
You've heard it before, but here it is again, Bakersfield has made another dubious list. This time the city has been called o...
At 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, Delano Police officers responded to an armed robbery at Allied Cash Advance at 1015 Cecil Ave...
Wheels will be turning in Bakersfield next May, as the city has been selected as an official host for the 2012 Amgen Tour of ...
Stan Statham, president of the California Broadcasters Association, has worn many hats, including newsman, DJ and state legis...
After an attempted burglary, a Rosamond, Calif., man was charged with making terrorist threats against Kern County Sheriff's ...
A disturbance call early Wednesday morning led Delano, Calif., police officers to finding a combustible device near a man&rsq...
Scott Cox of "The Scott Cox Show" on Kern Radio, News Talk 1180, spoke with the President/CEO of the California Bro...
Courts are deciding whether inmates can sue private prisons before the Federal bench. Several years ago, inmate Richard Lee ...
Could Kern County jobs be threatened by reports of a pullout of Berry Petroleum?Citing regulatory changes in Sacramento, Berr...
A 4.1 magnitude earthquake rattled the Kern County desert on Tuesday. The 4.1 magnitude quake hit Tuesday at 8:38 a.m. near...
After a four-month stay in Mexico, a 15-year-old Taft, Calif., runaway has returned home and has said she has learned a lot a...
A McFarland, Calif. marijuana case sent two undocumented men back to Mexico on Monday.After six months in custody, two men we...
The new business plan for California's high-speed rail system shows the nation's most ambitious state rail project could cost...
A Buttonwillow, Calif., house fire early Sunday morning caused thousands of dollars in damage.23-ABC reported that Kern Count...
Kern County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Rosamond, Calif., man after a carjacking and shooting incident Sunday night.A...
Get out your car wax as the sixth annual car and bike show comes to Oildale, Calif. on Saturday morning.Twenty-two classes of...
Pacific Gas & Electric Company has completed repairs on a segment of line in northwest Bakersfield after a hydrostatic pressu...
A 14-year-old Delano, Calif., girl managed to escape an armed attacker. Police officials said a man came up to the girl on Tu...
The identity of the baby found not breathing in Weldon, Calif., on Oct. 20 has been released. Deputies from the Kern Valley S...
A Bakersfield man pleaded guilty to credit card fraud. Jairo Fernandez, 27, admitted Monday, Oct. 25, that between November ...
As of yesterday afternoon, the Station Fire south of Bakersfield has been 25 percent contained. Fire officials said, as of Su...
One person is dead and two people are suffering from major injuries after a crash near Shafter, Calif. The crash occurred Su...
A fire in Boron, Calif., claimed the lives of three dogs early Sunday morning.Around 5 a.m. Sunday morning, fire crews found ...
Health was the topic for a public meeting in Weedpatch, Calif. on Thursday.Nina Pickett of Building Healthy Communities told ...
A call about a child not breathing ended in tragedy in Weldon, Calif., Thursday morning. Around 6:15 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. ...
Law enforcement officers found methamphetamine and marijuana in a Taft, Calif., home Wednesday morning. The Kern Sheriff&rsqu...
Police are looking for two women wanted for shoplifting from Kohl’s in September. On Sept. 21, the women were responsib...
Quick action by Kern County firefighters saved a Kernville, Calif., home and the dogs who live there. Firefighters received ...
An ice cream truck driver showed up at a Lake Isabella school to lure children into his truck.On Thursday, Oct. 13, deputies ...
A wildfire started by a metal grinder Tuesday morning is close to full containment.Firefighters made good progress against a ...
Three men from Santa Ana have been arrested for breaking in on a Lake of the Woods, Calif., man, beating him up and threatene...
Almond thieves who had conspired to steal and resell thousands of dollars in almonds were arrested Wednesday after authoritie...
A Taft, Calif., skydiving instructor’s mid-air sex video has caught the eye of the Federal Aviation Administration.Part...
In an attempt to escape from a detention center, an inmate clung onto the undercarriage of a bus.Sheriff’s authorities ...
California state laws were recently signed to benefit new moms and babies.Governor Jerry Brown signed into law several bills ...
Residents of Kern County's outlying areas could be paying as much as a $150,000 for fire protection of their properties. ...
The owners of a single-wide mobile home in Oildale, Calif., are now out of a place to live. A fire broke out around 2:30 p.m....
Kern County Sheriff’s deputies found weapons and evidence of drug sales at a house on Piute Meadows Road, in Walker Bas...
A Bakersfield man pleaded guilty to marijuana charges resulting from a 2010 warehouse drug bust.Mark McGrath, 30, of Bakersfi...
Four Los Angeles artists are coming to CSUBakersfield's Todd Madigan Gallery this October.The Todd Madigan Gallery at CSUB pr...
A search went underway over the weekend for a missing 15-year-old off-road enthusiast who crashed his bike in the Piute Mount...
Kern County Sheriff's Office officials said a man is in critical condition after being assaulted by another man on Sunday in ...
Accused of multiple firearm possession, child endangerment and drug-related charges, an Oildale, Calif., couple made their fi...
Inmates at prisons in Central and Southern California are on a hunger strike to protest what they say are deplorable conditio...
Of the daily tableau of performers and student tablers on UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza, it was a bake sale that stirred n...
Two homemade bombs were detonated after a drug raid at an apartment in Oildale, Calif.According to the Kern County Sheriff's ...
A Lake Isabella, Calif. woman was still missing on Tuesday after she was seen bloody on a roadside in the Kern River Canyon M...
"Drop and give me 20!" Students at the Bakersfield City School District will still be hearing those words in physi...
Hundreds of illegally cultivated marijuana plants were seized by law enforcement Wednesday, Sept. 21, in the Wasco, Calif., a...
Three Wasco, Calif. teens were tracked down by sheriff's officials after they were seen in a YouTube video joy-riding past st...
Although the recovery process can sometimes take a long time, local resources are available to assist and encourage survivors...
For those who think Bakersfield has the worst air in the nation, there is some good news. Bakersfield has tied for third amon...
A Bakersfield woman who said she was going to meet a friend has been missing since Sept. 18. Police said she may be in danger...
A Kern County pilot was leading the race during the crash at the National Championship Air Races in Reno, Nevada. He Talked t...
Local and federal law officials busted a pot growing operation in Lamont, Calif. on Monday.The Kern County Sheriff's Office s...
Firefighters found a male body in the remains of a house fire in Bodfish, Calif. At approximately 8:42 a.m. Monday morning, t...
A fire in South Lake, Calif. on Sunday caused $25,000 in damage to a home as firefighters fought the dangerous blaze amid...
Time for cinnamon rolls, corn dogs, crazy rides, funny carnies and the rodeo as the 2011 edition of the Great Kern County Fai...
It's a fish tale even the experts are finding hard to believe. A recent Scripps study of Mexico's Cabo Pulmo Marine Reserve h...
Good news for those living in Arvin, Calif. who are worried about their city's poor air. Arvin residents will be monitoring ...
California's rural traffic fatality rate is the fifth highest in the nation. Will it worsen?Officials said the state's rural ...
Why a man stabbed multiple times was in an abandoned house, officials didn't say, in a Wednesday incident in Wasco, Calif. Ac...
More than 6,000 marijuana plants were seized and five suspects escaped as officials swept into a remote forest area south of ...
A Bakersfield woman is dead after a single-vehicle accident near Buttonwillow, Calif..The 54-year-old woman is yet to be iden...
There's a memorial concert being held on 9/11 you won't want to miss.On the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the Worl...
It now costs even less to buy a house in Bakersfield, Calif.According to the Preliminary Crabtree Report by local appraiser G...
One person received minor injuries in Lamont, Calif. when an acetylene tank burst on a welding truck on Tuesday.According to ...
The number of homes destroyed in the Canyon Fire has been increased to 27, according to the Kern County Fire Department on Sa...
State investigators said no workplace safety laws were violated when a Chevron oilfield worker died after falling into a sink...
A local school went on lockdown Tuesday morning after burglars were reported prowling in the area. Two were arrested.The Bake...
Fewer Latino children are going to preschool, according to a new study from the University of California at Berkeley.UC Berke...
An inmate in prison for murder at Lerdo in Shafter, Calif. was found hanging in a cell on Tuesday. The inmate is in critical ...
Thanks to some benevolent local enterprises, a group of 40 Oildale, Calif. schoolchildren are getting help going back to scho...
Nine grass and vegetation fires burned Kern County over the weekend. Some were sparked by lightning, while other causes remai...
A camper found the hand of a 52-year-old dead man poking out of the sand on the shoreline of Lake Isabella on Saturday. Two W...
Just what is Gov. Jerry Brown saying about a California job-related tax that he claims is perverse?Gov. Brown says there are ...
Everyone has an opinion about the city of Maricopa, Calif. lately, especially about their police force and whether it should ...
A Kern County Sheriff's Office SWAT team was called in after a burglary suspect was found to be holed-up inside a home in Alt...
According to the Kern County Sheriff's Office an Oildale, Calif. man stabbed his own brother in the arm on Sunday night.Offic...
Half of a pile of 1,100 tons of hay caught fire on Thursday near Lamont, Calif. after the hay spontaneously combusted, accord...
What crimes are in your neighborhood? Are there burglaries? Drugs? Car break-ins? Are there crimes near your child's school? ...
A fire near Fellows, Calif. burned 135 acres in an oil field on Monday, according to the Kern County Fire Department.Fire off...
The Kern County Sheriff's Office said deputies caught a stereo store burglar suspect on Aug. 13 in Taft, Calif.According to o...
An 18-year-old woman was sexually assaulted along a bike path in a Golden Hills, Calif. on Saturday afternoon.According to th...
Kern County Sheriff's Office deputies executed a search warrant Aug. 10 on a local marijuana grow guarded by pit bulls just b...
According to the Bakersfield Police Department, they will be cracking down on motorcyclist safety on Aug. 11 and Aug. 28 thro...
A vegetation fire torched at least 160 acres on Tuesday in Walker Basin, Calif. after a cutting machine sparked the blaze.Acc...
Kern County firefighters were using air tankers, helicopters and manpower to battle a vegetation fire burning 300-acres of oi...
A Bakersfield man was arrested on Tuesday, only a dat after the strange theft of aged dynamite and other items from a propert...
Officials said two people were arrested for a robbery and battery that occurred on Sunday in Lamont, Calif.Kern County Sherif...
As the hearse carrying Richard Chavez drove away in the searing July heat, Dolores Huerta, long-time partner of Chavez stood ...
West Nile virus is a big threat during Kern County summers. The disease has progressed to California since 1999, and in 2007,...
Bakersfield's First Morning News talks with Officer Chris Cochran of the Office of Traffic Safety to fill the community in on...
A 100-mile-per-hour chase in the southern Central Valley near Arvin and Lamont, Calif. netted sheriff's deputies a stolen veh...
The suspected shooter is missing and one person was shot in the leg in a shooting inside a Lost Hills, Calif. Jack in the Box...
A parolee-at-large was found living inside a condemned house on Tuesday in Lamont, Calif., according to the Kern County Sheri...
The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for community assistance in locating a suspect who used a disabled person placard...
A barn went up in flames in Maricopa, Calif. on Sat, destroying $200,000 in property and contents.At 1:09 p.m., July 23, ...
Get our your berets and bongos, the CSU Bakersfield OLLI Program presents two exciting free poetry events at Russo’s Bo...
Three people were arrested in Mojave, Calif. on Wednesday on drug and weapons charges, according to the Kern County Sheriff's...
Kern County Sheriff's Office officials said a man in South Lake shot and killed his wife of ten years on Wednesday.Sheriff's ...
A farmworker found a body shot to death in an Arvin, Calif. orchard on Tuesday, according to the Kern County Sheriff's Office...
A house fire in South Lake, Calif. near Lake Isabella on Monday was possibly caused by an aromatherapy candle, according to t...
Kern County Sheriff's Office officials said a Rosamond, Calif. man was stabbed in the stomach by his girlfriend.According to ...
A parole and probation sweep in Rosamond, Calif. netted seven arrests, according to the Kern County Sheriff's Office.Sheriff'...
Two bodies were found buried in a shallow grave near Delano, Calif. in an orange grove on Thursday. An autopsy has been sched...
Kern County Sheriff's Office officials said a gang-related arrest in Lamont, Calif. netted a female car thief on Tuesday.Acco...
Four people were injured in a Taft, Calif. duplex fire early Tuesday, including three children.According to the Kern County F...
Two Taft, Calif. adults were arrested on Wednesday on drug-related charges as well as for possession of a hand grenade.Accord...
The Bakersfield Police Department released statistics regarding its recent Sunday DUI checkpoint. One arrest was made and mor...
According to the Kern County Sheriff's Office, an intoxicated man without a driver's license was arrested driving a stolen ve...
A leading Bakersfield Republican has called the newly-passed state budget a setback for Californians trying to recover from t...
A woman in Rosamond, Calif. threatening to commit suicide was rescued from the highway overpass sign from which she was dangl...
A baby was found unconscious in a Rosamond, Calif. drug house bathtub. One man was arrested.According to the Kern County Sher...
According to the Bakersfield Police Department, the Secret Witness Program is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for infor...
What's this? California state employees are losing about half of their nearly 60,000 cell phones? Blame it on budget woes for...
Cool temperatures aren't just keeping toes out of some swimming pools. West Nile virus, which has infected humans in Kern Cou...
Scott Cox of the Scott Cox Show on Kern Radio, News Talk 1180 interviews Bakersfield Police Department Chief Williamson about...
Thanks to citizen complaints and an ensuing investigation, nearly fifty people were arrested in a massive narcotics-related b...
A 41-year-old man was arrested in Rosamond, Calif. for breaking into a mobile home on Wednesday.According to the Kern County ...
One man was shot dead and a KernCounty Sheriff's Office deputy was injured Wednesday night in an Oildale, Calif. confrontatio...
The year 2011 has been an exceptionally destructive tornado season in the American Midwest, with Joplin, Missouri being the l...
Fire officials will declare the arrival of wildland fire season on Monday afternoon, including a warning to residents in moun...
One man who violated parole was arrested along with another man as an accessory in a knife threat in Rosamond on Thursday.Acc...
One man who violated parole was arrested along wit another man as an accessory in a knife threat in Rosamond on Thursday.Acco...
Fire officials still don't know what caused a house fire in Ridgecrest on Wednesday afternoon.According to the Kern County Fi...
The Kern County Sheriff's Office didn't release many details in their report of a sexual assault and abuse arrest they made l...
A fire on Thursday displaced a family of four in Shafter, Calif. and did $75,000 in property damage.According to the Kern...
A fire on Thursday displaced a family of four in Shafter, Calif. and did $75,000 in property damage.According to the Kern...
A man and two women are wanted in connection with credit card fraud and burglary connected with an incident at a local depart...
During Cinco de Mayo festivities the Bakersfield Police Department said they will be holding extra patrols to make sure peopl...
It's not the usual kind of fish pulled out of the California aqueduct that many know is home to some rather large striped bas...
According to a press release on Monday, blood-stained evidence in an Inyokern home and an ensuing investigation led Kern Coun...
Kern Valley High School instructor Michelle Baker has been named one of the state’s best home economics teachers by the...
A Tuesday fire that originally started in a Shafter home attic caused enough damage to displace a family of five.According to...
Recent December 2010 flooding along a stretch of Kern River now known as the Audubon Kern River Preserve has left the area in...
A 20-year-old man who was last seen at a party was found dead in a field in Mojave, according to the Kern County Sheriff's Of...
The Kern County Fair will continue to thrive and offer all of the fun, food and entertainment of past years, a fair official ...
The Bakersfield Police Department has asked for help identifying two suspects in a Jan. 23 robbery at a Bakersfield Circle K ...
SWAT had to be called out to a motel where four men were holed up as three gangmembers were arrested in Tulare, Calif. in con...
SWAT had to be called out to a motel where four men were holed up as three gangmembers were arrested in Tulare, Calif. in con...
According the Bakersfield Police Department a suspect in 12 bank robberies was apprehended and arrested by the FBI.Police sai...
Don't know your history of America's raging grannies who set out to battle social injustice, or leading Californian women who...
A man suspected of abducting a one-year-old child was caught in Wasco on Sunday, according to the Kern County Sheriff's Depar...
Hearings were held Friday in Fresno Federal Court for all ten defendants in the massive mortgage fraud case spearheaded by ...
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