Bakersfield CA

Southern California and the neighboring Southwestern states have been overallocating water from the Colorado River for decades. And the day of reckoning for such an unsustainable approach to water management has finally arrived (see this month’s article on the Colorado River). But there’s another seemingly endless supp

Local Catholic churches stand to lose most or all the money their parishioners have contributed during years-long fundraising campaigns because of a bankruptcy case the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno filed last summer in response to mass allegations of clergy sex abuse, a local priest told his congregation Sunday. Mo

Bakersfield residents are calling for more trees, better air quality, and infrastructure upgrades as heat and pollution concerns grow.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A woman was arrested after officers allegedly found a semiautomatic pistol and ammunition at a home in northwest Bakersfield on Thursday, according to the Kern County Probation Department. On Aug. 13, officers with the department’s Adult Probation Services Division conducted a home call in

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — During a checkpoint and saturation patrol in the northwest Bakersfield area Friday night, a total of five vehicles were impounded. Officials with the Bakersfield Police Department said the DUI and license checkpoint was in the 10700 block of Brimhall Road from 6 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturd

Two incumbents and three challengers are running for three seats on the Taft City Council. The final candidates lineup was released by the City of Taft last week after the deadline to file passed at 5 p.m. Wednesday. Incumbents Josh Bryant and Ron Waldrop are seeking reelection to four year...

KERN COUNTY, CA — “Kern County Jury found Juan Carlos Toscano, Javier Angel Ontiveros, and Garret Sebastian Cole guilty of first-degree murder and found true the special circumstance that the murder occurred during the course of a robbery, among other charges. The case was prosecuted by Deputy District...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Jurors on Monday continued to hear testimony in the case of a man who claims he was heavily intoxicated and hearing voices on the night he killed his wife in east Bakersfield, and has no memory of cutting her throat. The sanity phase of Rafael Estrada’s trial began last week with […]

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Kern County Treasurer and Tax Collector is urging residents to pay their unsecured property taxes by the end of the month — or risk paying a fine. The county’s tax collector, Jordan Kaufman, announced Monday that unsecured property tax bills were mailed out to residents with addresses k

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Kern County sheriffs with the office’s Rural Crimes Investigations Unit arrested four people last Thursday relating to a copper wire theft near Wasco. Deputies from the Buttonwillow and Delano substations arrested Ramon Araujo, 34, Amador Fraijo Villegas, 49, Luis Osbaldo Valdez, 31, and Ma