Arvin artist showcases therapeutic landscape paintings at Bakersfield gallery
Arvin artist Jeanette Schumacher showcases landscape paintings at the Bakersfield Art Association, using art as a healing process after returning to painting following a 45-year hiatus.
Man guilty of manslaughter in Superior Grocers fight
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — On New Year’s Day 2023, five men fought in the parking lot of the Superior Grocers store on Union Avenue. During the scuffle one of the men, store employee Juan Carlos Urvina, was punched and fell backward, hitting his head. Urvina, 54, died the next day. On Friday, Demetrius Ford Jr. […]
Blood found in murder suspect’s vehicle: report
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Surveillance video captured Angel Estrada arriving at a home where a woman was later found stabbed to death, according to a court filing that became available Friday. When arrested, he had fresh cuts on his fingers and blood in his vehicle, the filing says. Estrada, 46, has pleaded not...
Frazier Park Fire Contained To 3 Acres
Firefighters held the “Park Fire” in Frazier Park to 3 acres Thursday night after a building fire spread to nearby vegetation. Around 8:35 p.m. Thursday, the Kern County Fire Department responded to multiple reports of a structure fire on the 400 block of Pico Trail in Frazier Park, according to the department...
Kern Behavioral Health to work with KCSO, BPD to assist with behavioral health calls
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Several law enforcement agencies in Kern County are expected to start assisting behavioral and mental health calls with the help of Kern Behavioral Health and Recovery Services starting this month. BHRS is asking the Kern County Board of Supervisors to approve proposals that will allow...
Man on probation arrested in east Bakersfield after fleeing, faces Prop 36 offense
BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK/KBFX) — A man on probation was arrested in east Bakersfield last week after attempting to flee from officers from the Kern County Probation Department, and was later found with methamphetamine. On July 2, 2025, officers contacted Narciso Avalos at a home in the 200 block of Ixtapa...
California Starvin’ on the San Joaquin Line, Along With a Missed Connection
“California Dreamin’” was one of the iconic songs of the sixties. It was about an Angelino enduring a New York winter and dreaming about his warm hometown (the inverse of the scenario in Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas”). Barry McGuire recorded the original version in 1963, and the 1966 version by The Mamas & the...
Memorial held for abandoned dog to die of an unsolved case in Kern County
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — In May, shocking video revealed an individual allegedly placing an injured dog near a dumpster in East Bakersfield. Advocates say no one has been held responsible for the dog's abandonment. “Like so many animals, everything goes under the rug,” said Rusty Rose/Animal Advocate, Ivette...
PG&E offers bill relief and summer savings programs as temperatures rise
With triple-digit temperatures sweeping across the Central Valley, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is expanding efforts to help customers reduce energy bills and avoid service disconnections.
BPD search for missing at-risk girl, 16, last seen in east Bakersfield
BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK/KBFX) — The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the public's help in finding a missing at-risk 16-year-old girl, Love Icelyn Dixon. Dixon was last seen on July 10, 2025, at 10:43 p.m. in the 2900 block of Morocco Court, in east Bakersfield. She is at risk of being a first-time runaway.
