A motorcyclist was involved in a head-on crash on 4th Avenue in Taft on Wednesday, according to the CHP. Just before 3 p.m., ...

Bakersfield is offering a free Start Smart class for current and potential teenage drivers and their parents/guardians.

California Highway Patrol closed nearly 13 miles of Taft Highway near Taft before 9:30 a.m. after a backhoe hit and ruptured a gas line while digging.

BAKERSFIELD, CA (August 17, 2022) - Monday morning, a truck crash on Taft Highway took the life of an 80-year-old woman and injured a teen.

Fire crews were called to the 1500 block of Taft Highway at around 11:30 a.m. Kern County Fire Department Public Information Officer Jonathan Drucker said a 4-inch underground gas line was struck.

Taft Highway Pedestrian Accident Leaves One Fatality. BAKERSFIELD, CA (September 1, 2021) – Police are investigating a pedestrian crash on Taft Highway that claimed the life of one person on Friday.

Juana Ruan finishes removing the cover of a new sign Friday that names a section of Taft Highway in her son’s honor. The U.S. Army corporal was severely injured in a training accident in 2019.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A structure fire temporarily closed a portion of Highway 119 northeast of Taft, according to the CHP Traffic Incident Information Page. The page reported the ...

The Kern County Coroner’s Office has identified the wrong-way driver killed on Highway 58 as 40-year-old Corrina Mckenzie ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Love’s gas station has opened its first location off of Highway 99 on Taft Highway. Officials say the location on Taft Highway will be on of the largest locations ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — The man suspected in a fatal crash on Taft Highway that claimed the lives of a mother and her daughter in 2017 has been found guilty on multiple counts of murder, according ...

Bakersfield's Ward 7 covers all of southwest Bakersfield from Taft Highway to White Lane. Two of the people running to represent the area on the city council were born and raised right there.