Boaters and anglers who’ve long complained about the impacts of two power plants on Kern River flows want federal regulators to give more water back to the river as part of separate relicensing ...

OILDALE, Calif. — Preparing for the threat of massive flooding during California’s “Big Melt,” federal engineers have been releasing more Kern River water from Lake Isabella than is ...

Join 23ABC on a tour of one of the oldest power plants in Kern County. Ted Sorenson is an ... up to 11.5 megawatts of electricity when the river is full enough to divert the full 600 CFS.

Consuming three times as much water as the native plants it displaces, arundo has become a problem that must be managed, said Vice President Bill Cooper of the Kern River Parkway Foundation.

The Kern River has long been a dry riverbed in downtown ... McNeish stopped at a dry depression and poked her yardstick into tangled aquatic plants, finding dead tadpoles. Where days earlier ...

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 ...

(KERO) — An unknown substance was recently found in the water of the Kern River ... the sources of intake off of the river for our treatment plants, and we will be monitoring the treated ...

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 ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (CN) — Colorful awnings and tents lined the shores of the Kern River on a Saturday afternoon at Riverside Park in the small town of Kernville in the southern Sierra Nevada ...

Southern California Edison’s Kern River No. 1 power plant ... With one of the city’s main treatment plants also offline for maintenance, according to Budak, the water being released by ...