Bakersfield CA

California officials have escalated their campaign to build affordable housing by filing lawsuits that accused five cities of flouting legal deadlines for submitting plans to meet housing shortages.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Boys & Girls Club of Kern County will soon provide more after school and enrichment opportunities for children around the county. Starting soon, the Club will add three more locations in Kern County, with two in Bakersfield and one in Lamont. “We are excited to welcome our Club members

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A construction company is joining forces with Habitat for Humanity Golden Empire to help rehabilitate parts of Bakersfield. Layton Construction is teaming up with the local Habitat for Humanity chapter to put on a community volunteer work day to rehab a Bakersfield home and help strengthen

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — A driver fled after a hit-and-run crash injured a man in southwest Bakersfield on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Bakersfield Police Department. Police said the crash happened around 3:18 p.m. in the 4000 block of Wilson Road near Akers Road, where a man was struck...

Books in Motion turns 10 in Kern County, using dance and performance to inspire kids to read at libraries and at home, countywide.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The chief of the Avenal Police Department has been appointed to take on a new job in Kern County. A vote on Wednesday by the Arvin City Council appointed Cecilio Velasco as the new chief of the Arvin Police Department. Their police chief position had been vacant for almost a year.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A 19-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of murder in a deadly stabbing on Frazier Avenue was not charged Wednesday and his case has been sent back to law enforcement for further investigation, prosecutors said. Donte Carney was no longer listed in custody as of late Wednesday aftern

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — More than two decades after Wendy Kyle was found dead in her burning Oildale home, Kern County sheriff’s detectives are again asking for the public’s help in solving her killing. The Kern County Sheriff’s Office is requesting information from anyone who was at...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Bakersfield city officials are set to discuss two ways the city could help provide transparency and better protect immigrants from federal immigration agents, including a potential TRUTH Act community forum and a “sanctuary city” policy. Six public speakers at the City Council meeting Wedne

A lawsuit has been filed in federal court calling for justice for 8-year-old Genesis Mata, alleging Kern County Child Protective Services has systematically failed children for years and that little Genesis is the latest in a series of dead children who were supposed to be under CPS protection.