The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget projects that Social Security’s main trust fund will be insolvent by the end ...

Firefighters with the Kern County Fire Department extinguished a 77-acre fire Saturday evening near the Lost Hills area.

The deadline for suing to stop Kern County from resuming oil and gas permitting passed Monday with no word of a new lawsuit ...

Kern County Animal Services is leveraging technology from Petco Love Lost to create a comprehensive online database, ...

Arkansas couple killed at Devil's Den State Park while hiking with young daughters; suspect at large The 10 most ‘impossibly ...

Initial location: Kern County, Calif. A new wildfire was reported today at 12:40 p.m. in Kern County, California. Chester ...

Pearl Fire initially started today at 11:29 a.m. in Kern County, California. Since its discovery two hours ago, it has burned ...

Multiple Kern County fire crews battled the Brown Fire near Lost Hills Saturday evening. According to the Kern County Fire Department, firefighters first responded to a first-alarm wildland fire in ...

Kern County Sheriff's Deputy Jasmine Francisco is facing a series of daunting challenges after purchasing a new home for ...

It all started the afternoon of July 24, 2024, when Keith Lee Mulkey careened off Highway 178 near Democrat Road, crashing ...

The wildfire, which ignited July 24, made history as Kern County’s largest, scorching nearly 60,000 acres. As of Monday, the fire still smoldered but was 94% contained.

Kern County makes up 75% of total crude oil production in the state according to a 2019 report by the Los Angeles County Economic Development.