On Sunday, June 29, a group of paddlers will embark on a demanding 16-mile portage around Southern California Edison’s Kern ...

Thousands of new oil wells could be drilled in Kern County annually after a decision from the Kern County Board of ...

You won't have to dig deep to find fun this Sunday with a program at the Buena Vista Museum of Natural History and Science. Local geologist Tim Elam will present "McKittrick and Maricopa Tar Seeps," a ...

A brush fire near Frazier Park prompted a rapid response from Kern County Fire. Wednesday, Jun 25, 2025. New Delhi o C. Subscribe. ... Map, location, and evacuation updates as blaze grows to 150 ...

For the Kern County Fire Department, its budget ranged from about $115 million to $180 million for the past decade or so. Since the passing of Measure K — the county’s voter-approved one-cent sales ...

Operations in Kern County raise questions about immigration law enforcement & 100-mile rule in California, far from the US-Mexico border.

B AKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — On this week’s Kern County In Depth, how election results nationally shaped the races in Kern County. National trends affected critical races in Kern County ...

is Tuesday, Nov. 5 and in addition to the U.S. presidential race, Kern County voters will cast their votes for a range of elected officials and ballot propositions. Depending on where they're ...

Some high-elevation areas in the Sierra Nevada mountains are expecting snow later this week. Snow-covered peaks after a series of atmospheric river storms brought heavy snowfall on January 22 ...

KERN COUNTY, Calif. (KABC) -- A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck in Kern County Tuesday night, with significant shaking felt throughout Southern California. The quake struck at 9:09 p.m. southwest ...

The solar arrays planned for Kern County’s park would produce enough electricity to keep the lights on in 640,000 homes for a year, more than five times the number of households in Bakersfield.

The Kern County Water Agency (Agency) ... Recharge of this runoff into groundwater banking projects, in turn, attracted a diverse population of up to 35,000 water birds.