Bakersfield CA

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Exactly four years ago today, deputies with the Kern County Sheriff’s Office located the deceased body of 25-year-old Larry Christy Jr. on a dirt road near Boron. The sheriff’s office said that it was suspected that Christy was murdered was murdered between the night...

Central Valley parents signed petitions demanding cameras be placed in California’s special education classrooms, as is allowed in states such as Texas and Louisiana.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The Kern County Sheriff’s Office is seeking information in the 2022 shooting death of 25-year-old Larry Christy Jr., whose body was found on a remote dirt road north of Boron. KCSO said on September 11, 2022, at around 8 p.m., deputies found the body...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Kern County coroner’s office has identified the 55-year-old man who was killed in a traffic collision earlier this week as Jose Manuel Mendez Camacho, of Avenal. According to the California Highway Patrol, Camacho was operating a 2006 Chevrolet eastbound on Highway 46 at Wildwood Road i

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — A Bakersfield man, with a warrant for grand theft, was arrested after allegedly stealing about $200 in Target merchandise in Delano and was linked to a separate theft days earlier. The Delano Police Department said on September 10, 2026, at around 3:55 p.m., officers were...

One more hot day before things start looking a bit better!. Friday's forecast high in Bakersfield is 99°. By Saturday we drop to 94°, and we're all the way down to 85° by Sunday!. Highs in the KRV and even many desert areas will fall into the...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A woman charged with hit-and-run in a crash that killed a pedestrian on South Union Avenue made her first court appearance Thursday afternoon. Guadalupe Garcia Hernandez, 36, was arraigned on her charges Sept. 10. A public defender entered a not guilty plea on her behalf. Hernandez’s prelim

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Two men were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Thursday in the 2024 murder of a man in Lamont, with prosecutors saying they lured the victim to a location and killed him before stealing marijuana from his vehicle. Romieo Narvaez, 26, and Gabriel Prieto, 25, were

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The Bakersfield Fire Department, in partnership with the Bakersfield Police Department, is holding two ceremonies on Friday, September 11, 2026, as Bakersfield commemorates the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. There will be two public memorial ceremonies he

An 86-year-old former United Farm Workers organizer has filed a civil lawsuit alleging that Cesar Chavez raped her in her own marital bed in 1973 while his bodyguard stood watch outside her home. The suit, filed under the pseudonym Jane Doe, accuses the UFW Foundation and the Cesar Chavez Foundation of negligence, sexu