Bakersfield CA

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — According to the Kern County Sheriff’s Office records, a person died while in custody on Monday, September 14. According to records, the person was identified as a 42-year-old woman awaiting trial. It said the woman died while at the county jail facility. The mean...

Hand-dug tunnels through solid granite sound like tall tales, but this one is real. I had heard about a man who spent nearly four decades chipping away at a mountain, and I assumed the story had grown in the telling. Then I drove a washboard dirt road into the California...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Kern County Board of Supervisors approved new grant money from a federal funding pool to go toward Meadows Field Airport’s master plan update. The approved funding is for $1.9 million from the Federal Aviation Administration and it will be issued to help further fund the Airport Master

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Kern County coroner’s office has released new information about the man who drowned in a hart Park waterway in July. The coroner’s office said that Mario Antonio Officer entered a body of water at Hart Park on the morning of July 16 and went unresponsive. Law enforcement said Officer’s

Downtown Bakersfield businesses share strategies and resources after the closure of longtime staple Uricchio's.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — A woman was seriously injured after she was struck by a pickup truck in a hit-and-run crash on Niles Street late Friday night. The California Highway Patrol said officers were called around 11:40 p.m. Sept. 11 to the area of 6465 Niles Street. Investigators said an early- or late-model

What does it take to build a meal so massive that finishing it feels like an accomplishment? Across California, certain dining rooms answer that question daily, piling plates high with crab legs, sushi rolls, and stir-fry sizzling straight off the grill. Inside these spaces, chefs work fast at open stations,...

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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — Grapevine Road exit from northbound Interstate 5 is closed after a semi-truck rollover Tuesday afternoon. The CHP’s website said on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, at around 1:15 p.m., there was a report of a semi-truck that rolled over on the Grapevine Road off-ramp from northbound Inter

OXNARD, Calif. (KGET) – Three Bakersfield World War II veterans took a half-hour tour of the Southern California coast Saturday in a B-17 Flying Fortress. The three centenarians took their spin in the clouds out of the Oxnard Airport thanks to the generosity of the A-Z Foundation Group. “It wasn’t nervous at all; in fa