Bakersfield CA

Nurses protest Dignity Health layoffs in Bakersfield, warning 137 job cuts across 2 California hospitals could harm patient care.

State Route 41 was closed from the Kings and Kern County line to the East Junction of state Route 46 in San Luis Obispo County due to the Cotton Fire, which burned 80 acres.

When a gray wolf comes into view on Jack Lavers’ Kern County, Calif., ranch, the veteran cattleman doesn’t need binoculars to know what he’s seeing. “It is a different experience to witness one firsthand up close,” Lavers says. “To be honest, it gives you the chills. They don’t move like a normal dog or a coyote, and t

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A man convicted of attempted murder and other charges for shooting someone with whom he fought at a family gathering was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years to life in prison, plus four years, according to prosecutors. Devaun Means, 49, was convicted earlier this year in the April 22, 2025, sho

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — A state appeals court has denied an effort by the California Attorney General’s Office to overturn a judge’s decision granting mental health diversion to former Kern County Supervisor Zack Scrivner. The 5th District Court of Appeal denied the petition challenging the diversion order,..

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Early on July 5, as Independence Day celebrations continued, an SUV sped through an Oildale neighborhood. The driver took off when residents told him to slow down. Ten minutes later — after dropping off two passengers — he returned and opened fire from the vehicle, wounding four people incl

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Kern County Coroner’s Office identified the 17-year-old boy from Lost Hills who died after being struck by a vehicle while on a gas-powered bike. David Vargas Vasquez of Lost Hills was riding a “gas-powered bicycle” on northbound Lost Hills Road, south of King Street, around 11:23 p.m.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The Kern County Coroner’s Office has identified the woman who died after a crash in Inyokern on June 16 as 20-year-old Harmony Anne Hoyer of Ridgecrest. The CHP’s website said on June 16, 2026, at around 10:31 p.m., there was a report of a...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Kern County Coroner’s Office has released the cause of death for a man who was found in a canal on Lake Street in June. According to coroner officials, the man, identified as Martin Jeu Plascencia, was found in a canal in the 1400 block of Lake Street on June 13. […]

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Kern County Coroner’s Office identified a 20-year-old woman who was killed in a crash involving a semi-truck on Highway 395 in June. Coroner officials identified the driver as Harmony Anne Hoyer, 20, of Ridgecrest. Hoyer was the driver of a vehicle that collided with a semi-truck on sou