Bakersfield Fire Department comes to raccoon’s rescue during tumultuous thunderstorm
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/FOX58) - Bakersfield Fire Department firefighters rescued a friendly critter from a flood during the thunderstorm on Thursday. The exact location where...
Kern commuters, roadways begin battle with floodwaters
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. --- (KBAK/FOX58) The first in a series of storms hammered Kern County roadways. The Thursday storm saw rain in both the early...
No, tumbleweeds don’t go into your green waste bin
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — It’s not something only seen in Western movies –tumbleweeds are a common visitor when Kern County is hit with...
Winter storm to worsen over the weekend
Thunderstorms rolled throughout Bakersfield with heavy rainfall and hail Thursday afternoon - and a meteorologist warns it could get worse this weekend as the...
9 hospitalized after 200 prisoners rush corrections officers in riot at Southern California prison
BLYTHE, Calif. - Eight corrections officers and an incarcerated man were injured in a riot involving around 200 inmates in the recreational yard of...
Risk of Thunderstorms Through This Evening For Metro Southern California
Issued Zones: San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Kern County … The Inland Empire … All Southern California Mountains...
Golden State Avenue Northbound shutdown by large sinkhole
On Wednesday night at 6 p.m., California Highway Patrol reports that several drivers hit a large pothole in the northbound lanes of Golden...
Flood Emergency Issued for Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and Kern Sunday through Tuesday
Southern California Weather Force has issued a Flood Emergency, effective Sunday through Wednesday morning as the bulk of the atmospheric river is set to...
Crackdown on illegal dispensaries: Multiple arrests, closures in Kern County drug bust
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) - Five people were arrested for allegedly operating illegal marijuana dispensaries, possession of controlled substances and illegal firearms, after several agencies...
Coroner rules teen’s death on Provincetown Ave a homicide
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The death of a 14-year-old boy shot last month in southwest Bakersfield has been ruled a homicide. Coroner’s...
