A fast-moving brush fire erupted near Frazier Park on Thursday afternoon, prompting a swift joint response from the Kern County Fire Department ... See the Frazier Prak fire map here.

Arkansas authorities are looking at whether a prison kitchen job played a role in the escape of a convicted former police ...

The family of a woman, authorities say, was stabbed and killed by her husband, was at his scheduled court appearance Friday.

Bakersfield is enhancing public safety by expanding its Verkada camera systems across local parks. The Bakersfield City ...

A stabbing incident on Monterey Street in East Bakersfield has resulted in one dead, according to the Kern County Sheriff's ...

The Bakersfield Police Department is searching for a stolen vehicle suspect in south Bakersfield Thursday afternoon. Detectives and officers found a stolen ...

Bakersfield City Council debates the allocation of Measure N funds, originally intended for public safety and economic development. Measure N, a 1% sales tax, was approved by voters in 2018, but some ...

A 35-year-old Bakersfield man who was struck by a vehicle near downtown Bakersfield died two weeks later, announced the Kern ...

The Kern County Coroner’s Office has identified a man who was struck by a vehicle in downtown Bakersfield in early May.

"The Bakersfield Sound," Robert E. Price's authoritative history of the hard-edged style that transformed country music, is now on sale for $21.95. "The Bakersfield Sound: How A Generation of ...

California's ancient buttonwillow tree and the town named after it, 25 fabulous things to do in L.A. and more big stories.

View crime data for all of Baltimore City, individual neighborhoods or even your own block in the tables and maps below. From the city’s Open Baltimore portal, the data is reported weekly by ...