While conducting biological surveys along the Kern River in Bakersfield, they have seen water retreat into stagnant pools and then vanish, leaving stretches of bare sand and cracked mud.

The fatality sign at the mouth of the Kern River Canyon was updated Friday morning, adding seven additional lives lost to the ...

I didn’t know what to expect when Chipman Junior High school teacher Michael Hutson asked me to attend the school’s “Water ...

Conservation groups are going to court to try to bring back a flowing river in Bakersfield, where for years so much water has been diverted in canals to supply farms that the Kern River is usually ...

At least four people were saved after tubing in the Kern River Saturday night near Lake Ming. The Bakersfield Fire Department deployed the swift water rescue ...

Cars were lined up early Monday morning, stuck in Bakersfield trying to get to Lake Isabella. Asension Badillo waited an hour ...

The city's assistant director of water resources says Bakersfield's lakes are already full and the groundwater basins are recharging after years of operating at an extreme deficit. BAKERSFIELD, Calif.

Triple digit heat is still on track for Friday and Saturday. Fortunately much cooler weather moves in by early next week.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.— Conservation groups have sued the city of Bakersfield for diverting water from the Kern River and ignoring the harms such diversions do to the community and wildlife. The lawsuit, ...

The Kern River Valley community is set to celebrate the reopening of its neighborhood library with a grand ceremony on ...

(CN) — Five environmental groups sued the city of Bakersfield on Wednesday over the diversion of the Kern River to water districts controlled by agricultural businesses growing almonds, pistachios, ...