Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed 2025-26 budget assumes that the state will receive $133.7 billion in personal income taxes, more ...

With several industries poised to grow in the coming years, Kern County's economic future is bright, said Kern County Board ...

B Christian High School senior Ben Smith remembers his mom getting him involved in student ag projects as a younger kid, but ...

Sen. Shannon Grove introduced another bill seeking to create an account parents can access funding for schools of their ...

Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the death of an inmate at North Kern State Prison as ...

Bakersfield College could be on the brink of naming its next head football coach, Athletic Director Reggie Bolton said in a brief email Thursday to The Californian.

Thursday morning, dozens of BCHS faculty, staff, administrators, board members, parents and FFA students watched and listened as the southwest Bakersfield campus celebrated the groundbreaking of its ...

A woman was charged with 17 felony counts related to forgery after allegedly cashing multiple counterfeit checks using a stolen driver’s license, according to a search warrant filed by the ...

The Kern County Fire Department announced the beginning of open burning of hazard reduction fuels at 8 a.m. Saturday.

The man who was killed June 3 on Comanche Drive was killed by strangulation and his death is a homicide, the Kern County Coroner’s Office reported Thursday.

A Taft man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of vehicle and property theft after nearly four months of investigation, ...

A Kern County jury found a man guilty of attempted murder in a shooting that occurred in Rosedale, according to the Kern ...