Bakersfield CA

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — One person died after an early morning solo-vehicle crash on Sycamore Road on Wednesday. The crash was reported in the area of Sycamore and South Edison roads around 12:42 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol. Investigation showed a man with an unknown age was driving a 2007 Sci

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) Diesel prices have continued to climb across California over the past week, and drivers and trucking companies in Bakersfield are feeling the impact. Stuart Heisler an oil expert with Anacapa Engineering and Design said, “You know we’re just going to keep seeing high prices until these w

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A GoFundMe has been created for a woman who was struck and injured in a hit-and-run crash in the east Bakersfield Foodmaxx parking lot on Sept. 11. According to the GoFundMe, the woman stuck and injured is identified as Silvia Soto and she is a single mother of four who was […]

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,...