The unemployment rate in Kern County has dropped.… Read More
BPD TURNS UP STOLEN KEYS
Bakersfield Police would like to find the owners of numerous key rings that may have been stolen from area businesses.… Read More
NEW REGULATION SET FOR CARCINOGEN IN LOCAL WATER
The State Water Resources Control Board was in Bakersfield to talk to residents about getting rid of a cancer causing agent in local drinking water.… Read More
DEPUTIES LOOK FOR LIQUOR STORE THIEF
Sheriff’s deputies are looking for the man who robbed an east Bakersfield liquor store at gunpoint.… Read More
PARK AT RIVERWALK FIRE
A riverbed fire broke out at the Park at Riverwalk in southwest Bakersfield.… Read More
TEHACHAPI DISPATCH CENTER UP AND RUNNING
The Tehachapi Police Department has launched its own dispatch center after years of using the one at Bear Valley Springs. The center started handling all emergency calls as well as the department’s radio traffic June 30th, and lead dispatcher Matt Murphy thinks it has made them more responsive to the community. The phone numbers to…… Read More
STAGGERING COUNT ON DESTROYED HOMES
The number of homes destroyed by the Erskine Fire stands at 257.… Read More
VEHICLE BREAK-IN PICS
Bakersfield police are asking the public’s help in finding those responsible for several vehicle burglaries. Four men in dark clothing broke into vehicles on Waterbury Drive near Columbia Elementary School in southwest Bakersfield just before dawn on May 22nd. Call BPD is any of these men look familiar at 327-7111.… Read More
LAW ENFORCEMENT SAYS NO TO GUN CONTROL INITIATIVE
Local law enforcement leaders, including Sheriff Donny Youngblood and Taft Chief of Police Ed Whiting, have come out against a gun control measure that’s not even on the November ballot yet.… Read More
OILDALE DEATH NETS SUSPECT
A suspect is being held without bail in the death of an Oildale man.… Read More
