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
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
The 5th annual Expanded Learning Project Conference brought 350 after school professionals together to enhance their skills supporting Kern County students. Director David Stricker says state funding helps provide about 850 hours of after school programming each year. Children spend an average of about a thousand hours in the classroom each year.… Read More
The Sheriff’s Bomb Squad has detonated a pair of pipe bombs that were discovered this weekend near Stallion Springs. Police there describe them as capped, cylindrical PVC devices that were found Sunday morning by a resident near Comanche Point and Jack Springs roads. Two other devices found nearby were deemed safe and taken for evidence.…… Read More
Firefighters braved the heat to battle a two-alarm fire on horse property along Brimhall Road between Verdugo Lane and Calloway Drive. It was burning in the dry grass when crews arrived just before 1:00 Sunday afternoon, where the flames destroyed a structure and damaged a corral. No horses were hurt, according to 17 News, and…… Read More
All available CHP officers will be working to keep our highways safe this long holiday weekend, starting at 6:00 Wednesday night. The Maximum Enforcement Period will last through Sunday night, with officers looking for speeders and other unsafe drivers. A news release says 68 people died in crashes across the state during the July Fourth…… Read More
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It took Kern County firefighters several hours to fully extinguish a haystack fire near Shafter that put up smoke that could be seen for miles. The Swan Fire on Swan Lane near Enos Lane was reported just after 11:30 a.m. Thursday, and the black smoke was from burning tires and trash that had also ignited.…… Read More
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