It won’t be ready until next summer, but Hart Memorial Park is set to get a new adventure playground complete with a Kern River-themed water feature. “It’s a good place for kids to come out and also ...

In the Kern River Valley, most of the community has experienced their electricity shut off as part of the Public Safety Power ...

The count, which began in 1968, doesn’t include people who died in the upper Kern River, in Tulare County, which doesn’t keep drowning statistics on its section of river.

A man was found dead Sunday in the Kern River, a day after local authorities received a report of a possible drowning in Lake Isabella.