Bakersfield CA

A 60-year-old man was stabbed aboard an Amtrak bus as it approached Los Angeles Union Station, and a fellow rider's quick improvisation with his own sweater may have kept the victim alive long enough for help to arrive. The attack happened on a bus traveling from Bakersfield to Tijuana, and the victim was taken to a ho

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Satire and farce are incredible tools a filmmaker can use to take an audience through a maze of twisted realities to the point where perception overrides logic. Done right and the production allows the viewer to slowly uncover the clever fiction or the complicated facts. The key is letting

Five middle school students stood near the back of the stage area at the Lindsay Friday Night Market on a recent weeknight, phones raised and at the ready. The teenagers were waiting to see their favorite artist perform in the city about 60 miles from Fresno, When the singer walked out, sporting a black turban and a be

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A verdict was reached Friday in a murder trial of a man who murdered his wife by stabbing her over 23 times. Victor Farias Jr. was found guilty on all counts, including first degree murder for the slaying of his wife Yolanda Rojo. 17 News was not allowed to film the […]

Did the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department drop off a busload of people – maybe parolees, maybe homeless folks – and ditch them in a west Bakersfield shopping center?

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A California Department of Fish & Wildlife investigation has led to the arrest and booking of one person into the Kern County Jail on multiple animal and hunting-related code violations. The department said the code violations include the unlawful take of deer, unlawful possession of deer,

The Bureau of Land Management is scheduled to offer tens of thousands of acres for oil and gas leasing across four California counties this December despite opposition from the State Attorney General's office.

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Energy companies will be able to secure new oil and gas leases in Central California for the first time in six years. The Bureau of Land Management announced that it will hold an oil and gas lease sale on Dec. 1. The big picture: The auction will offer 43 oil...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — A man was convicted of first-degree murder, child abuse, and resisting arrest after fatally stabbing the mother of his two young children nearly 100 times in front of them at their Bakersfield home earlier this year. The Kern County District Attorney’s Office said Victor Farias...