BAKERSFIELD — The Kern River cascades from the Sierra Nevada in ... Within sight of the empty riverbed in Bakersfield, the irrigation canals flow full, carrying water to farming operations ...

Dangerous.' During the drought, the flow of water on the Kern at this time of year slowed to as low as 1,000 cubic feet per second, Kemmerling said. On Saturday, the river was flowing five times ...

On December 15 the average output of the dam, which solely determines how full the Kern River is south of the dam, was around 650 cubic feet per second. This has resulted in a heavy flow that ...

Stephen Yaws points to banks of the Kern River near Beach Park and imagines what the scene might have looked like a few generations ago before the flow was diverted, turning this stretch into a ...

Winter storm is met by a warm atmospheric event, causing runoff in the mountains above the upper and lower portions of the Kern River. The resulting surge in the flow is one for the history books.

(KGET) — The City of Bakersfield has responded to the state attorney general’s friend-of-the-court brief in support of restoring water year-round to the Kern River. The city attorney’s ...

(CN) — In a win for environmental groups, a California state court judge on Monday temporarily blocked Bakersfield from reducing water flow on the Kern River. Kern County Superior Court Judge Greg ...

most of which must flow downstream before November (to make storage space in Isabella available for next year's snowpack) it means the lower Kern below the dam and in the Kern River Canyon will be ...

(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, ...