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

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

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 ...

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.