Bakersfield CA

A 14-year-old girl was hurt in an Arvin e-scooter crash. Data shows child e-scooter injuries are up nearly 700% since 2020.

A grass fire that was started by a car near Interstate 5 was stopped before reaching across the freeway. Kern County fire crews responded to a grass fire near Interstate 5 and Grapevine Road on September 30th, a bit before 7:30 p.m. The fire was in an area of thick...

Family has identified the second victim who was gunned down in a deadly double homicide in Porterville early Friday morning.

October 4, 2026 – FRESNO, CA – Gilberto Barron, 26, formerly of Delano and Las Vegas, was sentenced on Monday, September 28, 2026, by U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Thurston to seven years and 10 months in. prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money...

Triple-digit temperatures didn’t keep large crowds away from the Kern County Fair on Friday, and fairgoers heading out for the final weekend will face more 100-degree-plus heat. A heat advisory from the National Weather Service is in effect from 11 a.m. Saturday to Tuesday at 11 p.m. Even with...

Fried Oreos have long been a fair favorite, but at the Kern County Fair this week, one vendor is offering a twist: fried brownies. Sweets by J is featuring two new items for the final weekend of the fair, including what owner Erica Quintero described as the “Dubai straw brownie,” made with “Dubai chocolate,” pistachio

A 60-year-old man was stabbed aboard an Amtrak bus as it approached Los Angeles Union Station, and a fellow rider's quick improvisation with his own sweater may have kept the victim alive long enough for help to arrive. The attack happened on a bus traveling from Bakersfield to Tijuana, and the victim was taken to a ho

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Satire and farce are incredible tools a filmmaker can use to take an audience through a maze of twisted realities to the point where perception overrides logic. Done right and the production allows the viewer to slowly uncover the clever fiction or the complicated facts. The key is letting

Five middle school students stood near the back of the stage area at the Lindsay Friday Night Market on a recent weeknight, phones raised and at the ready. The teenagers were waiting to see their favorite artist perform in the city about 60 miles from Fresno, When the singer walked out, sporting a black turban and a be

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A verdict was reached Friday in a murder trial of a man who murdered his wife by stabbing her over 23 times. Victor Farias Jr. was found guilty on all counts, including first degree murder for the slaying of his wife Yolanda Rojo. 17 News was not allowed to film the […]