Bakersfield Councilmember Andrae Gonzales announced his campaign for State Assembly in District 35.The announcement comes a ...

Bakersfield Vice Mayor Andrae Gonzales announces campaign for Assembly District 35 following Assemblywoman Bains' ...

Court documents describe what happened after police arrived at the home of Kern County Supervisor Leticia Perez and her ...

The California Supreme Court has granted review of the Kern River water diversions case and will decide whether to uphold a lower court order requiring the city of Bakersfield to keep sufficient water ...

The 2026 Election is already underway, as candidates throw their names in the ring for local, state and federal offices. Wednesday morning, Assemblywoman Dr.

California has six privately operated immigration detention centers. Two of these — Golden State Annex in McFarland and Mesa ...

Also, Fernando Rodriguez Jara, age 49, is the husband of Kern County supervisor Leticia Perez. He is in custody, charged with ...

On Tuesday, the board voted to extend its contract with the current system, Dominion Voting, for two years in order to get through the upcoming 2026 election cycle.

For the first time in more than 100 years, the Kern River is headed back to the California Supreme Court where justices may ...

A Bakersfield teenager drowned July 8 in the Kern River south of River View Park, the Kern County coroner’s office said Tuesday. The body of 15-year-old Ester Isabel Villanueva Torres was found at ...

Both the city of Bakersfield and county of Kern are in the process of revising their homeless ordinances in the wake of Los Angeles passing a new law restricting encampments.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — It’s been a long time coming. At last, the southwest Kern County Public Library is open to the community. “We are having our grand reopening celebration after a ...