The City of Bakersfield announced Tuesday it was cutting back Kern River flows for a maintenance project. But the hundreds of dead and dying fish found Friday near the Stockdale Highway bridge ...

A man was found dead near Riverside Park in Kernville and was pulled out of the Kern River around noon Thursday, according to the Kern County Sheriff’s Office.

A man was convicted of attempted carjacking three people the day after Christmas at a nail salon near The Park at River ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.— Conservation groups have sued the city of Bakersfield for diverting water from the Kern River and ignoring the harms such diversions do to the community and wildlife.The lawsuit, ...

The Kern County coroners' office on Monday released the name of the man who was found dead March 24 near the Kern River. Daniel Lee Painter, 50, of Bakersfield, was found shot near the riverbed at ...

BAKERSFIELD — The Kern River cascades from the Sierra Nevada in a steep-sided canyon, coursing through granite boulders, and flows to the northeast side of Bakersfield. There, beside cottonwoods ...

The Kern River is one of the great rivers of California’s Sierra Nevada range, descending from its headwaters near the base of Mount Whitney to the San Joaquin Valley floor. Under drought conditions, ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — The city of Bakersfield reduced flows to the Kern River on Sept. 3 to repair the weirs along the river, but environmentalists say that resulted in hundreds of dead fish.

Even the legendary Merle Haggard, Bakersfield native and pioneer of the Bakersfield Sound, wrote a song about the river that peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1985. Simply ...

While conducting biological surveys along the Kern River in Bakersfield, they have seen water retreat into stagnant pools and then vanish, leaving stretches of bare sand and cracked mud.

Christina Murphy has been missing since July 22, 2024. Her car was located in the Kern River near the 178 in Lake Isabella, and although it was removed, Murphy has yet to be found.