Bakersfield CA

A Bakersfield man will spend one year behind bars for transferring $5 million to China and other countries through an illegal money transmitting operation. U.S. District Judge Jennifer Thurston sentenced Ifeanyi Emmanuel Ugwu, 50, to one year in prison on Monday. Driving the news: Ugwu owned and operated Franklin Finan

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The Bakersfield Police Department has announced statistics for the second week of the Kern County Fair regarding arrests, ejections, medical aid, and missing/found children. The statistics were from September 30th to October 4th. According to BPD, for the second week, there have been:.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — A Utah man died after his motorcycle veered off Sierra Way near Patterson Lane and crashed into a dirt and rock ditch Sunday morning. The California Highway Patrol said on Sunday, October 4, 2026, at around 8:59 a.m., officers were called to Sierra Way, north of Patterson Lane, for a r

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A person is dead after being struck by a vehicle Sunday in Oildale, according to the California Highway Patrol. CHP said officers responded to the report of a traffic crash involving a vehicle and a person riding an electric scooter just before 4:30 p.m. on Airport Drive and El Tejon Avenue

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Body Xchange Health Clubs has been acquired by Planet Fitness, according to a new Instagram statement. Some locations in Bakersfield are facing closures, such as the the location on Bernard Street. Signage on the door states the location has closed and shows a map of other Planet Fitness gy

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — In Oildale off of Airport Drive, sits a picture of 14-year-old Elizabeth Griffith, not far from where she was found dead Sunday afternoon. “If you met her, you’d fall in love with her,” said Martha Sadler, Elizabeth’s grandmother. Elizabeth was using her electric scooter, as she had countle

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — A pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle in Oildale on Sunday afternoon, according to the CHP's website. The driver did not stop for law enforcement, according to the CHP. At around 4:20 p.m., a pedestrian was crossing near Airport Drive and El Tejon...

Federal and local water officials broke ground Thursday on the first phase of a major effort to modernize the Friant-Kern Canal and improve water deliveries across the southern San Joaquin Valley. The project will begin by replacing five aging pump stations along a realigned section of the canal. Eight additional...

From the sidewalk it looks like a modest old cottage, the kind you might drive past a hundred times without a second glance. Step through the gate, though, and a whole world of trees, string-lit tables, and Basque family history opens up behind it. This home belonged to the man...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — Indian Summer is in the air for the final days of the Kern County Fair and as a strong early October ridge builds in, and stays in, our temperatures will be more August-like again. A Refried Ridge continues to stay firmly in place across this...