When told a link containing child pornography was found on his phone, Erik Ruiz became distraught. “That’s what I get for trying to watch regular porn,” said Ruiz, adding that he was going to kill ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The Shafter Police Department will have a soft opening for a temporary substation in the ...

A Shafter man who was arrested in February while trying to leave the country admitted to having sex with a teen girl and making a recording of the act on his ...

A Shafter police investigation led to the arrest of a man on suspicion of child pornography possession Friday morning. Erik Ruiz, 30, was arrested after a search ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An appeals court ruled Thursday that California’s law banning gun magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition can remain in place, a decision that prompted one judge to ...

I didn’t get anything.” Under California law, the compensation board is required to offer in-person evidentiary hearings for ...

Uber said that the fine print in its terms of use barred riders from joining mass lawsuits. The 9th Circuit said no way.

The Kern County coroner's office on Tuesday identified a Bakersfield man who died Saturday when the vehicle he was driving was hit by another car in Shafter. Luis Fernando Farias Castillo ...

But Mr. Duterte’s arrest also shows the limits of the court’s power: Although its jurisdiction is sweeping, the court cannot carry out arrests on its own. It relies on the cooperation of ...

WASHINGTON − Former Vice President Kamala Harris will decide by the end of the summer whether she will run for governor in her home state of California, a source familiar with her plans said ...

A new Supreme Court ruling widely criticized by environmentalists ... She also noted that it’s illegal in California to impose pollution rules that are more lax than the rules they replace, ...

The California Supreme Court directed the State Bar of California to revert to traditional in-person administering of July bar exams after a new testing system created chaos and complaints.