Environmental activists in Bakersfield have won an initial victory in their legal fight to keep water flowing in the Kern River, which for many years was reduced to a dry, sandy riverbed.

BAKERSFIELD — The Kern River cascades from the Sierra Nevada in a steep-sided canyon, coursing through granite boulders, and flows to the northeast side of Bakersfield. There, beside cottonwoods ...

Water is again running in the Kern River through Bakersfield, four months after it suddenly went dry at the end of August, 2024, leading to a massive fish die off. But it will only last through ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Community members of Kern County walk the dry riverbed in protest for the water restoration in the Kern River. The river was shut down in August of 2024, affecting ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.— A Kern County Superior Court has ruled against the city of Bakersfield and agricultural water storage districts for diverting water from the Kern River, siding with environmental ...

KERN RIVER VALLEY, Calif. (KERO) — A light but consistent rain has come to the Kern River Valley on November 25 into the 26. First respinders are keeping their eyes on areas with burn scarred land.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (CN) — Colorful awnings and tents lined the shores of the Kern River on a Saturday afternoon at Riverside Park in the small town of Kernville in the southern Sierra Nevada ...

A march to bring awareness to the Kern River will take place Saturday, Nov. 13 in the dry river bed through Bakersfield. Local nonprofit Bring Back the Kern is organizing the protest march ahead ...

Firefighters hatched a plan to rescue a horse on Saturday that had bucked off a rider and then fell into the Edison Flume on Kern River Canyon Road near Miller Street in Bodfish. Crews from Lake ...

Just as they did more than two generations ago, Kern County farmers are looking to another Central Valley river to the north to refill their groundwater shortfall. But this time around ...

Aug. 28—To call 2023 an unusual water year in the Kern River Basin would be a serious understatement. "It was the most abnormal water year you could possibly have," said Evan Moore of Sierra ...