Search prompts lockdown of Superior Court
BAKERSFIELD, CA -- Bakersfield police say the courthouse at 1415 Truxtun Avenue was locked down for approximately ten minutes late Friday afternoon. The original report was that there was a man with...
View ArticleLester Holt works the room at conference
IRVING, TX. -- NBC's Brian Williams calls his colleague Lester Holt, the hardest working man in news. And Friday Holt was working the room at a Texas gathering of TV executives from Nexstar, the...
View ArticleFormer KHSD employee sues district
BAKERSFIELD, CA - The Kern High School District is locked in another legal battle. This time a former payroll employee claims she was harassed for alerting staff that employees were trying to get paid...
View ArticleBakersfield couple's vacation nightmare
BAKERSFIELD, CA - A Bakersfield man remains in a Mexican hospital with severe injuries after a zipline excursion went terribly wrong.Brian Hodges is in a medically-induced coma with severe head...
View ArticleTwo people killed in Delano crash
Two people are dead and two others injured, after a flatbed truck crashed into a Honda Accord in Delano Saturday morning.Authorities were called out to Pond and Driver Roads just before 11 a.m.A farm...
View ArticleAnnual blood drive helps fuel low supplies
BAKERSFIELD, CA - Houchin Blood Bank's biggest annual blood drive kicked off Monday. Houchin officials said 252 people registered and about 200 units were taken in. This is short of their 260 unit...
View ArticleKeeping kids safe in and around cars
BAKERSFIELD,CA- Tuesday morning, the Department of Human Services is requesting the board of supervisors to proclaim August as purple ribbon month. It's an effort to curb the number of children who die...
View ArticleCrash kills pedestrian in southwest Bakersfield
BAKERSFIELD, CA -- Police are investigating a Tuesday morning crash that killed a pedestrian in southwest Bakersfield. Officers were dispatched just after 6:30 a.m. Tuesday to the area of Wilson Road...
View ArticleFour NOR spray parks shutting down
BAKERSFIELD, CA -- Officials with the North of the River Recreation and Park District (NOR), say because of the drought resolution passed by the State Water Resources Control Board July 15, they will...
View ArticleMandatory water regulations go into effect early
SACRAMENTO, CA -- Mandatory water restrictions that were supposed to take effect August 1, has taken effect Tuesday, according to the State Water Resources Board. After getting an emergency approval,...
View ArticleVerizon phone service out in western Kern County
BAKERSFIELD, CA -- Folks living in western Kern County who have Verizon landline service for their phone may have trouble making a phone call. Deputies say the service in western Kern County is down...
View ArticleCoroner: Inmate dies from heart disease
BAKERSFIELD, CA -- The coroner's office has determined how an inmate at Wasco State Prison had died. Arron Derickson, 48, of Fresno was found dead Friday afternoon inside Wasco State Prison. An...
View ArticleMan who refused TB treatment arrested
BAKERSFIELD, CA -- Kern County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man who refused to get medical treatment for tuberculosis. Eduardo Rosas Cruz, 25, was admitted to Kern Medical Center, where he is under...
View ArticleState water restrictions begin days early
BAKERSFIELD, CA - Statewide water restrictions were put in place Tuesday, three days ahead of schedule. The State Water Resources Control Board made the decision Tuesday morning. While regulators got a...
View ArticleCity Attorney: All Bakersfield spray parks to close immediately
BAKERSFIELD, CA -- All 9 of the city's spray parks are shutting down as of Tuesday night. Bakersfield City Attorney Ginny Gennaro says because the State Office of Administrative Law approved the...
View ArticlePrisons hiring food service professionals
BAKERSFIELD, CA -- The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is hiring for several food service positions statewide. CDCR officials say their teams play a crucial role in...
View ArticleFrightening ordeal for local woman
BAKERSFIELD, CA -- It was a frightening ordeal for a local driver who wrecked her SUV in a fiery crash, and spent a long night alone, stuck in a gulch.The crash took place around 11 Tuesday night, at...
View ArticlePolice: Driver who hit runner, fell asleep at the wheel
BAKERSFIELD, CA -- Bakersfield police say that the driver who hit and killed a runner in southwest Bakersfield Tuesday morning, fell asleep at the wheel. It happened on Wilson Road and Westholme Blvd....
View ArticleCounty spray parks to stay open, limited hours for two
BAKERSFIELD, CA -- Parks officials say the Kern County spray parks will remain open however two of their locations will have reduced hours. The reduction in the hours, according to parks officials,...
View ArticleBakersfield Fire Department creates new Facebook, Twitter pages
The Bakersfield Fire Department has started a Facebook and Twitter page, in hopes of getting more fire department related information out to the public.The page is listed under Bakersfield Fire...
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