Kern County Search and Rescue has expanded its team with the addition of three new K-9 members, enhancing their efforts to ...

Whitewater rafters portaged a boat for 16 miles beside the Kern River, protesting the removal of water for a hydropower plant. The facility's license is up for renewal.

The nonprofit Kern River Conservancy, which hosts multiple river events throughout the year and marshals an army of ...

Nevertheless, the Department of Water Resources upheld its designation for the Eel River Valley as medium-priority, which ...

Plans to keep dwindling Kern River rainbow trout populations from dipping into endangered species territory are detailed and ...

A Lake Isabella man was found dead in the Kern River Tuesday, according to the Kern County coroner's office. Clint Joel Wampler, 49, went into the river at 1:53 p.m. Tuesday and his body was ...

A Bakersfield teenager drowned July 8 in the Kern River south of River View Park, the Kern County coroner’s office said Tuesday. The body of 15-year-old Ester Isabel Villanueva Torres was found ...

The Kern River flows near a walking path. There's a basketball and pickleball court along with playground equipment. It's the new Riverside Park. I'm Steve Virgen, your neighborhood reporter.