Kern County Fire Department Public Information Officer, Jonathan Drucker, released the following statement regarding the now ...

Police shot a suspect who allegedly approached officers with a knife at a Walmart in southwest Bakersfield Thursday night.

A woman, who allegedly charged at Bakersfield police with a large hunting-style knife, was shot by officers Thursday night at ...

Firefighters in Southwest Bakersfield responded to a two-alarm structure fire this morning, marking just one of several ...

The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the public’s help in finding an at-risk missing adult, last seen in southwest ...

The Fourth of July brings joy and excitement to many. For others, it brings disaster, in the form of an inferno.

With California accounting for 22% of nationwide fireworks injuries last year, local doctors and residents urge caution when ...

While it’s true Bakersfield is the ninth largest city in California, on Independence Day in the Westchester neighborhood, it was just about as small town as you can get. But in a grand way. The 36th ...

Call it the canary-in-the-coal-mine effect. It's the idea that people outside Bakersfield are watching the city to see what ...

A man was arrested on suspicion of stabbing a woman to death on Tuesday in central Bakersfield. Officials with the Bakersfield Police Department said Angel ...

The Kern County coroner's office has identified a woman who was found dead in central Bakersfield on Tuesday. Carol Joyce Ross, 60, of Bakersfield, was found dead in the 200 block of 6th Street at ...

Police reports detail the gut-wrenching account of the horrific death of the one-year-old boy strapped in his car seat with a ...