Court documents describe what happened after police arrived at the home of Kern County Supervisor Leticia Perez and her ...

A Southern California family is desperately searching for their loved one, who they say went missing in the Kern River this ...

The 2026 Election is already underway, as candidates throw their names in the ring for local, state and federal offices. Wednesday morning, Assemblywoman Dr.

Also, Fernando Rodriguez Jara, age 49, is the husband of Kern County supervisor Leticia Perez. He is in custody, charged with ...

After traveling across the country advocating for change against local government officials. Organizers host a rally to ...

The Bakersfield Police Department said they arrested Fernando Jara the husband of Kern County Board of Supervisor Leticia ...

On Tuesday, the board voted to extend its contract with the current system, Dominion Voting, for two years in order to get through the upcoming 2026 election cycle.

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 at ...

California has six privately operated immigration detention centers. Two of these — Golden State Annex in McFarland and Mesa ...

Two former prison facilities in Kern County could soon augment the federal government’s immigrant detention capacity as the ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — It’s been a long time coming. At last, the southwest Kern County Public Library is open to the community. “We are having our grand reopening celebration after a ...

Environmental groups are suing Bakersfield, demanding that the long-dry Kern River be allowed to flow through the city once again. ... which they filed Nov. 30 in Kern County Superior Court, ...