With aquifers nationwide in dangerous decline, an estimated 500,000 acres of farmland may be taken out of cultivation by 2040 ...

The county combined those positions with the clerk and registrar of voters back in 1995, due to budgeting issues. Those five ...

The Kern County Elections Office said ballots for a special election primary for the vacant Assembly District 32 seat are now ...

The Environmental Protection Agency reported that Kern County has experienced seven superemission events in the past week ...

Kern Economic Development Corporation National Cement Company of California, a key player in the region’s infrastructure, is ...

Family and friends celebrated the legacy of a former Shafter police sergeant at the California Assembly floor on Monday.

The United Farm Workers union said claims of 75% absences in Bakersfield were "not accurate" but that raids had caused ...

Chaotic, indiscriminate raids on our agricultural workforce will result in economic harm and higher food prices.” ...

Heightened fears of mass deportations can make undocumented immigrants and their families in the Central Valley vulnerable to ...

Having a work-should-be-fun atmosphere sounds great — until someone gets smacked in the head by a basketball. What should ...

Kern County got its first winter storm of the season over the weekend which brought a nearly 12-hour closure of the I-5.

President Donald Trump on Monday issued a memorandum directing the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of the Interior to develop a new ...