The temperature in Bakersfield peaked at 96° on Wednesday, slightly below the average of 98°. A smoky haze has settled in ...

A Kern County firefighter who beat cancer twice reported for duty Wednesday morning at Station 46 in Lamont. Randy Raymond ...

An immense solar-plus-storage power plant in the desert is now pumping out inexpensive clean electricity at full bore.

A Kern County firefighter is returning to work after overcoming cancer not once, but twice. Randy Raymond, who was first ...

Archaeologists Found 115,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Where They Shouldn’t Be ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 5:30 p.m. in Kern County, California. The wildfire has been burning on private land.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Kern County supervisors have approved significant cuts to the county’s public health department. They ...

The Kern County Fair is set to host a flash sale online for fair admission and the unlimited ride wristband. Fair organizers ...

First discovered: 1:59 p.m. Aug. 4 A new wildfire was reported today at 1:59 p.m. in Kern County, California. Getty Fire has ...

Kern County released a statement announcing “strong support” for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed bill that would make the ...

Good morning. It’s Thursday, Dec. 21. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. As Kern County officials embrace a warehouse boom, some brace for even worse air Malibu’s PCH is set for ...

On Sunday, Kern County had the second-highest per capita infection rate in California, behind Merced County, with 723 cases per 100,000 people over the last two weeks, according to The Times ...