The completion of the State Route 46 Widening Project was celebrated with a ribbon cutting hosted by CalTrans, in an area long known as Blood Alley. Spokesman Christian Lukens says many speakers representing Kern County showed up to the Monday morning ceremony. The project cost about $130,000,000 and took over six-years to complete. Photo credit:…… Read More
Police in McFarland are looking for leads into a deadly shooting that happened Friday on East Perkins Avenue. The man was found following reports of a shooting around 9:30p.m. that night in the neighborhood near Christopher Street, but there is no suspect information. Anyone with tips is asked to call McFarland PD.… Read More
Kern County has a new Economic Development Dashboard showing data on where we stand and where we’re going. Chief Economic Development Officer Jim Damian says our unemployment rate is consistently higher than the state average, in part due to the seasonal nature of some jobs, and he’d like to close that gap. There’s also a…… Read More
The Highway Patrol says it was a 54-year-old man from Clovis who was killed Monday in a solo vehicle crash in Kern County. The victim was driving on Northbound 99 near State Route 46 just before Noon on Monday when he suddenly veered into the center median, then back to the right shoulder where the…… Read More
Bakersfield Police are looking for the man who stole about 200 gallons of gasoline from a Samco station. The theft occurred July 3rd, around 2:00am at a Samco on Rosedale highway, and the suspect was seen driving off in a light colored, early 2000s GMC pickup truck. Anyone with information is asked to call BPD.… Read More
Kern County Fire reports the Blue Fire that broke out last weekend near Caliente is now 100-percent contained. The fire that was in steep, rocky terrain north of Caliente Creek Road was stopped at 427 acres and no structures were lost, and we’re now learning it was sparked by target shooting in the area. And…… Read More
Bakersfield is suing a long-troubled oil company over claims of water contamination. A news release Monday says Griffin Resources LLC is being investigated for actions and/or omissions regarding an incident in June that forced several Truxtun Avenue businesses to close for several days. The city seeks more than $150,000 in damages, an amount that does…… Read More
Preliminary damage estimates are coming in for the Borel Fire in the Kern River Valley, even as it remains an active incident. Kern County Fire reports 223 structures were destroyed, including 63 single family homes, 55 mobile homes, and 34 motor homes. Also lost were another 70 miscellaneous structures and a commercial building. Most of…… Read More
Three Chinese nationals have been arrested after the discovery of a massive, underground marijuana grow near Boron. Officers with several Kern County law enforcement agencies served a search warrant Tuesday, finding buried seatrains with ventilation and cooling systems. More than 17,000 pounds of marijuana was destroyed.… Read More
Three Bakersfield men have been killed and one critically injured in a crash on Interstate 5 in Castaic. The CHP says it happened around 4:30 pm Monday afternoon when the driver of the Toyota Avalon left the road near Templin Highway at a high rate of speed into a dirt embankment, sending the vehicle airborne.…… Read More
