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Officers with the Bakersfield Police Department arrested 12 people Tuesday on suspicion of burglary, grand theft and drug sales. the agency announced Thursday.

The CEO of California’s high-speed rail authority resigned late Wednesday, saying he needs to focus on “important personal and family priorities,” according to a copy of the emailed resignation obtained by CalMatters.

The Kern County Sheriff’s Office hosted National Night Out at Stramler Park on Wednesday night, inviting children and their parents for an evening of trick-or-treating.…

A domestic disturbance prompted a limited SWAT team deployment early Thursday in southwest Bakersfield, police reported.

We first met Dr. Ravi Patel at his Comprehensive Blood and Cancer Center 14 years ago. His small exam room was filled to capacity with my family nervously waiting to

The Bakersfield Police Department requested the public’s help Thursday in identifying a man who it says stole items just before 8 a.m. Oct. 7 from an unlocked vehicle near 18th

The city of Bakersfield is looking for public feedback on its housing policies, part of its efforts to secure a pro-housing designation from the California Department of Housing and Community Development.

The city of Arvin filed a formal complaint against a former interim city attorney, alleging the city was overbilled for legal services.

Highway 166 near Maricopa will undergo a full closure starting Monday and won’t reopen until 7 a.m. Nov. 7, weather permitting, according to Caltrans.

The owner of an older model pickup died Thursday after the vehicle collided with another at about 2:22 p.m. at the intersection of Columbus and Bucknell streets, the Bakersfield Police Department reported.

Calls to continue Dolores Huerta’s advocacy for workers – and her promotion of voting – follow her death.

In a statement shared through her foundation, Huerta’s team said she died Wednesday at home in Bakersfield, California, “surrounded by her close family.”

Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union to improve working conditions in the nation's fruit and vegetable fields and coined the enduring “Sí, se puede!” rallying cry, has died. She was 96. Huerta died of cancer Wednesday at…

Two high school teams that have played very well on the football field but have also dealt with off-the-field issues, putting a spotlight on their success with ineligible players, will play their regular-season finales tonight.

Nathan Day went to bed last Thursday night in Fort Wayne, Ind. figuring he would be on a bus with his Komets teammates the next day and headed to an

The U.S. Department of Justice asked Kern County to set aside 431 ballots linked to “likely aliens” ahead of the Nov. 3 election, in a letter sent last week.

Sitting before a massive bank of computer screens, an analyst inside Bakersfield Police Department’s real-time information center punches a license plate number into the database and, in the blink of an eye, dozens of pictures are on the screen.

People of influence around California and the nation shared tributes Wednesday as word spread that civil rights icon Dolores Huerta, one of Kern County’s most prominent residents, died Wednesday at the age of 96.

Legendary labor organizer Dolores Huerta has died. Her family says the United Farm Workers co-founder, civil rights icon and feminist activist died Wednesday at the age of 96. With César Chavez, she co-founded what would become the United Farm Workers…

Two artists find inspiration in the familiar but interpret it in their own ways for a pair of new exhibitions.