A man who was shot and killed by Bakersfield Police Department officers was identified Friday as Guillermo Padron Huerta.

The community is asked to help find a suspect who reportedly assaulted a developmentally disabled man and caused him major injuries.

The Bakersfield Police Department is asking the community’s help to find a suspect accused of stealing a package in the 1000 block of McDonald Way.

Early findings indicate excessive velocity and alcohol intoxication led a driver to slide down the Panorama Bluffs to her death Thursday night, according to the Bakersfield Police Department.

A jury was finalized Friday in the murder trial of two missing California City boys’ adoptive parents.

The Kern County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help to find a 50-year-old man who has a history of mental health concerns and has been missing since Thursday.

Help is needed to find a missing 15-year-old boy who was last seen March 17 at the intersection of Planz Road and Leonard Street.

A pedestrian died Thursday night in south Bakersfield after he walked across lanes of South Chester Avenue and a car hit him and then quickly drove off, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Residents of the small Tulare County town of Allensworth are desperate for answers about why floodwater from the White River is being allowed to rush in toward the community.

Data released Friday show Kern’s unemployment rate rose again in February, after a bigger jump in January, but this time the gauge’s climb to 8.9 percent was viewed less as a sign of economic slowing than a result of seasonal fluctuations and people reentering the local labor force.

A claim filed by a local law firm representing the family of a man who died in a collision with a Bakersfield Police Department patrol car revealed previously unknown details of the fatal crash, such as the name of the patrol car’s driver and the alleged negligence that caused the wreck, acc…

The clouds hunched low and dark against the tops of the Tehachapi Mountains as a cold rain poured down on a crowd that gathered among the green hills below.

The Bakersfield Police Department said Thursday an investigation into the use of force during a six-hour standoff with a shooting suspect is still ongoing, but released video footage of the incident.

The time has clearly come for the Bakersfield Downtown Business Association.

A vandalism charge against a Bakersfield Police Department officer was dismissed Wednesday after he completed the terms of a plea deal, according to the Kern County District Attorney’s office.

The Bakersfield Police Department released a video Thursday documenting a shooting in which eight police officers fired their weapons at a man who ultimately died.

The Bakersfield Police Department warned residents Thursday about an uptick in “sextortion” schemes primarily affecting teenage boys locally. 

Nearly 1,800 people — clad in KT tape, utility belts and headlamps — will descend upon Bakersfield this weekend to join in the international tradition of paying to run an arbitrary distance set a century ago. So if you see swells of people running by with crazed eyes and dogged determination…

A 59-year-old pedestrian died Wednesday night after she was struck by a vehicle in Oildale, according to the California Highway Patrol.

A ceremony at 10 a.m. Thursday at Bakersfield National Cemetery will honor unaccompanied veterans interred there and include a wreath laying ceremony commemorating Vietnam Veterans Day.

Bakersfield's evening City Council meeting began more like a Sotheby's event on Wednesday, as Mayor Karen Goh played auctioneer to the members of the audience who raised fingers like paddles for her attention. The lot in question: the few open chamber seats.

A Kern County Superior Court judge clarified a gag order Wednesday issued in the California City brothers adoptive parents’ murder trial and agreed with The Californian’s stance: A gag order doesn’t bar the release of records requested by this newspaper about the brothers’ interactions with …

Signs of economic slowing surfaced in a state unemployment report released Wednesday showing Kern County’s unemployment rate rose by more than one full percentage point in January even without a notable bump in the local labor force.

It was one year ago when Delano Growers Grape Products, a cooperative of area growers that produces white grape juice concentrate, decided it needed to fight back against unfair trade practices, including unfair pricing of subsided product exported to the United States from Argentina.

A man who threatened to shoot himself and his two young children Wednesday morning was arrested by police officers in central Bakersfield. 

Kern Secret Witness is offering $10,000 for information leading to an arrest and any charges in a shooting that killed a 21-year-old Bakersfield man.

The use of ChatGPT and artificial intelligence to help businesses grow are among topics of a free webinar presented by the Cal State Bakersfield Small Business Development Center from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday.

A Kern County Superior Court judge denied a motion Tuesday to dismiss charges against a man accused of killing his 7-week-old infant.

Will Gadd, a prominent Canadian ice climber and paraglider pilot, is scheduled to speak Thursday at Bakersfield College as part of the BC Distinguished Speaker Series.

A long line snaked along near the library entrance at Bakersfield College, where several students huddled, some holding onto each other, to brave the wind while at the monthly farmers market on Tuesday.

Change doesn’t always move at a steady pace, but the message at Bakersfield College Tuesday, in a ballroom filled with Kern High School District students, was that the new generation can help speed it up.

DELANO — After two months of delays and to the ire of residents, the status of rent control in Kern County's second most populous city remains inconclusive.

A Kern County Superior Court judge pushed back a decision Tuesday until next month because she needs more information before considering a motion to dismiss a voluntary manslaughter charge against a Tehachapi woman who killed her former partner.

A series of thunderstorms started off the day Tuesday, bringing with them hail to some communities, followed by sunshine.

DELANO — Come the third week of May, a rainbow flag will not be flown before Delano’s City Hall anymore, per a 3-1 vote Monday night.

A disease that notoriously upends women's lives has also transformed a longtime local business that's now in a better position to help breast cancer patients and survivors.

He doesn't look it, but Jim Shaw has been a Buckaroo for going on 53 years.

Evacuation orders were lifted in several areas throughout the county Monday as residents brace for another storm system dropping snow and rain on Kern.

A 20-year-old Tehachapi woman who died after she lost control and her car overturned was identified by the Kern County coroner’s office as Cindy Rosales.

A man who worked at the large Amazon distribution center across from Meadows Field Airport has filed a lawsuit accusing the company of firing him for asking to take time off work after his parents died.

Two Bakersfield brothers were sentenced Monday for multiple fraud schemes, including submitting false claims to the California Employment Development Department and selling non-existent pets, horses and vehicles online.

A Bakersfield man was sentenced Monday to four years and nine months in prison for using an individual’s personal information to open a brokerage account in the victim’s name and accessing this money, the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District said.

A Kern County Superior Court judge called upon more than 100 people Monday to begin the herculean effort to find prospective jurors in the highly anticipated murder trial of the California City brothers’ adoptive parents.

The Bakersfield Police Department is investigating an incident in which bullets struck a vehicle while a woman pulled out of her driveway and a home on Sunday.

A woman was critically injured Sunday after she was shot in southwest Bakersfield, according to police.