No amount of rain dampened the spirit of participants of the 2025 Bakersfield Marathon. The eighth edition of the race was ...

Top Kern County senior basketball players will have one more chance to compete in a local high school atmosphere when the Kern High School District All-Star boys and girls basketball games take ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A month after discovering Kern County EBT beneficiaries had been losing millions to theft, 17 News and the community, had yet to hear from county supervisors on this topic ...

“During the off season, sat down with Tim and made a deal to be able to bring the Bakersfield Speedway’s assets out here and turn this facility into the new dirt track of Kern County,” said ...

On Saturday, the lights will be bright at the new location of Bakersfield Speedway, at Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway. After 79 years of fun at the track on North Chester Avenue, the track is ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — The one-day strike from Kern County union workers started Wednesday morning in Bakersfield and other locations. SEIU members say they are fighting for higher wages ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - (KBAK/KBFX) — The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has informed Kern County of a one-day strike taking place today, prompting the county to limit public services.

Truxtun Avenue was a sea of purple Wednesday morning as hundreds of county workers demonstrated in front of the Kern County Administrative Building amid stalled contract negotiations. " ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A lengthy narcotics investigation by the Kern County Sheriff’s Office and the Kern County High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force (KC-HIDTA) resulted in the arrest of ...

Many county services will be impacted by a one-day strike by Kern County employees on Wednesday, but law enforcement, fire protection and the Kern County Superior Court will not be affected. In Taft, ...

Border Patrol agents slashed tires, yanked people out of trucks, threw people to the ground, and called farmworkers “Mexican bitches” during unannounced raids in Kern County in early January, ...

People who witnessed the sweeps previously told CalMatters it appeared agents in Kern County were stopping farmworkers and day laborers at random, profiling them based on their looks, and asking ...