Kern County's proposed $4 billion budget includes cutting 35 public health positions and reducing health funding by 25%, concerning residents who spoke at Monday's public meeting.

Initial location: Kern County, Calif. A new wildfire was reported today at 12:40 p.m. in Kern County, California. Chester ...

Multiple Kern County fire crews battled the Brown Fire near Lost Hills Saturday evening. According to the Kern County Fire Department, firefighters first responded to a first-alarm wildland fire in ...

Fay Fire initially started 3:19 p.m. July 15 in Kern County, California. It has burned 648 acres after being active for two ...

Firefighters with the Kern County Fire Department extinguished a 77-acre fire Saturday evening near the Lost Hills area.

Kern County Animal Services is leveraging technology from Petco Love Lost to create a comprehensive online database, ...

Kern County Sheriff's Deputy Jasmine Francisco is facing a series of daunting challenges after purchasing a new home for ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A 10-year veteran of the Kern County Sheriff’s Office is undergoing the fight of his life.

And summer’s not over. “On June 12 this year, we had already seen more acres burned in Kern County than all of 2023 combined,” said Capt. Andrew Freeborn with the Kern County Fire Department.

Arkansas couple killed at Devil's Den State Park while hiking with young daughters; suspect at large The 10 most ‘impossibly ...

Kern County does not have a vaccination mandate or weekly testing requirement for sheriff’s deputies but does follow Cal/OSHA guidelines, such as requiring coronavirus testing in prison medical ...

The homicide rate in Kern County in 2020 was 12.7 per 100,000 residents, the highest of any California county, according to the Department of Justice. That’s about one for every 8,000 people in ...