A 67-year-old man, who has yet to be identified, died while in custody of the Kern County Sheriff's Office, officials said.

No new lawsuits have been filed against Kern County’s revisions to its zoning ordinance to resume oil and gas permitting, but ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 1:33 p.m. in Kern County, California. Welch Fire has been burning on private land. At ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Kern County supervisors have approved significant cuts to the county’s public health department. They ...

Trump and Medvedev's War of Words Escalates to Nuclear Threats Woman loses husband to alcoholism, unprepared for message she ...

Kern County officials support Governor Newsom's proposal to streamline oil and gas permitting while maintaining environmental standards, potentially stabilizing fuel prices.

Kern County Sheriff's Office warns about scammers posing as deputies demanding payment for fake fines. Learn the red flags and how to protect yourself from these phone scams.

The Kern County Board of Supervisors approved three contracts with Ridgecrest Regional Hospital totaling $77,949 to provide case management and homemaking services for seniors in eastern Kern County.

B Kern County has expressed strong support for Governor Gavin Newsom's proposed legislation aimed at stabilizing California's transportation fuel market and ...

Amid ongoing uncertainty over federal funding of local health services, a project to prevent suicide and substance use among Native American youth in Kern County could be scaled back, or possibly ...

Kern County Information Technology Services (ITS) will be migrating Accela from a county-hosted system to the cloud starting ...