The Scripps National Spelling Bee started in 1925, and we've got our Kern County contestant for its 100th year. One student prepares for an un-bee-lievable competition in Washington D.C.

Local water systems on the brink of failure would receive assistance totaling tens of millions of dollars per year from an ...

SEIU — the labor union representing county workers in negotiations with Kern County — released a revised white paper analyzing the county's comprehensive annual financial reports.

The Boys and Girls Club of Kern County is hosting spring break day camps in Bakersfield and Lamont from April 14-21. The Bakersfield Boys & Girls clubs are ...

Flames broke out on the east side of Bakersfield on a rainy Thursday morning, marking yet another fire at a site notorious ...

The Kern County Cancer Foundation is hosting a “Teaming Up Against Cancer” event from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 15.

Public review begins today on a set of revisions to Kern government's third attempt at a comprehensive environmental review ...

A strong winter storm is expected to bring in heavy rain and some snow to much of Kern County on Thursday into Friday.Rain ...

More than two years after devastating floods ravaged Riverside Park, the popular Kernville destination remains closed ...

Dignity Health As part of the “Building a Better Bakersfield” initiative, Dignity Health Mercy and Memorial Hospitals are teaming up with the Kern County Cancer ...

A years-long effort to create thousands of good-paying, sustainable local jobs took a significant step forward this week with the unveiling of a $245 million state fund that could lead to big ...

Advocates on the scene said the Border Patrol raid in Kern County last month indiscriminately targeted Latino farmworkers ...