A Bakersfield resident now faces drug and firearms charges after agents found a rifle with a drum magazine and $6,500 in cash.

An investigation raised questions about California's clean-truck voucher program, including payments to companies facing fraud allegations.

Jacob Ramirez Aguilar was released from juvenile custody in May 2026. By October, he was accused of killing again in Richgrove.

The Pinos Fire broke out on U.S. Forest Service land in Kern County, with its cause and containment still unknown.

Drivers on Highway 395 stopped to gawk at blinding lights outside Lone Pine — it was a search-and-rescue trial for a company planning 50,000 orbital mirrors.

A decade of sibling lawsuits has pushed the 45-year-old Paso Robles winery to the brink, with a buyer deadline landing this week.

Pacific Steel Group's Mojave mill melts and rolls steel on-site, a first for California, with operations targeted for 2027.

Security video caught muzzle flashes as shots struck a KBAK/KBFX conference room and office on Westwind Drive. No one was hurt, and no arrest had been made as of Monday.

The new fire broke out near federal land in Kern County two days after the Cyrus Fire erupted near Lake Isabella.

Crews reached 61% containment by Saturday evening near Kernville after flames threatened homes on Lake Isabella's east side.

Crews hoisted the teen and a 26-year-old Texas man from a burning car 300 feet below Highway 178 after a Flock-camera-aided manhunt.

DEA and Kern County deputies tied a Hinkley desert raid to a second arrest in Bakersfield, with stolen firearms among the evidence.

The 16-year CHP veteran leaves behind a wife, two kids, parents and two sisters. Flags at the Capitol are to be flown at half-staff.