Bakersfield News

A man was found Saturday night on a rural East Bakersfield country road suffering from several gunshot wounds, and police said his car was likely taken by his shooter.

February's US$26.5 million fundraising marked something of a watershed in the short but eventful history of Madagascar Oil.

Crowds of people cheered and held up signs welcoming a group of veterans back from the inaugural Honor Flight Kern County.

Mission BBQ hosted a complimentary lunch Sunday to honor some American heroes from World War II.

If there are two people who define the spirit of the Kern County Basque Club, it's Lourdes Iturriria and Joe Recondo, and the two of exemplify why so many people come back to the club's annual festival, which was held Saturday and Sunday.

Q: Just wondering what the policy is with ambulances. I've noticed several times in the past month where an ambulance approaches an intersection and puts its lights on just to either make a U-turn or get through the intersection and then turns its lights off.

I don't know why the Army Corps of Engineers has been so secretive about what repairing Isabella Dam will cost.

House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy takes the Honor Flight from Kern County on a tour of the U.S. Capitol.

Investigators are still looking into the deaths of two toddlers killed Friday in a trailer fire in Bakersfield that was accidentally started by two older boys playing with matches.

Apricots and nectarines from Bakersfield are on sale at the Lim's Apple Farm booth at the Moorpark farmers market.

VoiceofOC - ?May 15, 2012? Several OCTA board members specifically noted there is no passenger train service of any kind through the Central Valley from Los Angeles to northern California because of a "gap" between Palmdale and Bakersfield, where there is a track for freight but The above copy of this enewletter is on a PDF file and A you will not ... (more)

Health and Cure, a health and nutrition organization based in Los Angeles, California held a Consecration service on Friday, May 4, 2012 at the El Shaddai Better Living and Wellness Center in Inglewood, California.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Nearly two dozen veterans are setting out on the trip of a lifetime.

A Bakersfield family is mourning the loss of a special education teacher killed in a crash Wednesday afternoon.

The death toll continues to climb at the Kern River each year. Nine people died in the river the last year.

Bakersfield country singer-songwriter Red Simpson, 78, has enjoyed a long, distinguished career.

Authorities say two toddlers have been killed in a trailer fire in Central California that was accidentally started by two older children playing with matches.

An Arizona woman accused of assaulting her husband with a knife and then trying to run over him with a car has turned herself in to California police.

An Arizona woman accused of assaulting her husband with a knife and then trying to run over him with a car has turned herself in to California police.

Bakersfield Police are still looking for a suspect in a violent robbery. On May 16, 2012, a man allegedly went into the Subway shop on Oak Street and shot a clerk with a pellet gun.