The unemployment rate in Kern County recorded its first increase since April, rising by nearly 10% between May and June, ...

For the fourth consecutive year, students attending any of the 46 schools under the Kern County Superintendent of Schools ...

United Way of Central Eastern California (UWCEC) honored educators in Kern County with a special Teacher Tote Giveaway.

The California Supreme Court announced Wednesday it will grant a review of the 5th District Court of Appeals decision that ...

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

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

Latest Kern County, California and US and world news from 23ABC in Bakersfield, Calif. Warren Buffett has set alarm bells ringing on Wall Street Writers Guild Calls for Investigation After ‘Late Show' ...

Bakersfield Vice Mayor Andrae Gonzales announces campaign for Assembly District 35 following Assemblywoman Bains' ...

The California Supreme Court has granted review of the Kern River water diversions case and will decide whether to uphold a lower court order requiring the city of Bakersfield to keep sufficient water ...

According to data provided by Kern County Public Health, these proposed service reductions are expected to save the county $3 ...

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

The majority of new detainees at one Kern County facility in McFarland are immigrants with no criminal convictions, according ...