How to get involved. The Kern Fly Fishers and Kern River Boaters are seeking interested residents to learn more about the two Southern California Edison power plants and their impacts on the river.

Panorama Vista Preserve board member Mic Hall seems to know almost every tree growing on the nearly 1,000 acres that make up ...

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 ...

Join 23ABC on a tour of one of the oldest power plants in Kern County. Ted Sorenson is an engineer who, along with his team, helped restore a century-old powerhouse back to a functional state.

Good environmental cause or not, no one was really expecting teenagers to show up on time on a weekend morning to labor outdoors in the heat for free. But sure enough, at 9 a.m. Saturday, a group ...

Chevron is preparing for flooding at its giant Kern River Oil Field north of Bakersfield by isolating wells, draining pipelines, turning off electrical power and armoring levees with riprap.

Bonnie Compton, who has lived along the Kern River for about 10 years, says she is upset that the water has been cut off and the river is drying up, leaving dead fish. “We want the water back ...

Without water, rare plants and endangered animals like the Buena Vista Lake ornate shrew and San Joaquin kit fox struggle to survive. The city of Bakersfield is the administrator and manager of all ...

Others continued to play in the water, most of them without life vests — a bold thing to do, since this river is nicknamed "the Killer Kern." It's unfortunately an appropriate moniker. According to ...

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 ...