Kern County’s rates of child abuse and neglect are on a downward trend, but they still remain higher than the state average, ...

The issue of parental rights is important to many school board campaigns in Kern County, but the way candidates are defining ...

Another big hitter in California rivers has waded into the ongoing Kern River legal battle. California Trout, a conservation group dedicated to healthy rivers, filed a brief with the 5th District ...

A man was sentenced to 50 years to life for shooting and killing Christoper Pudwill in March 2023 at the Fastrip at 34th and ...

Sitting on the stage in one of the auditoriums of the Taft Fox Theatre, all six candidates for District 2 for the Kern County ...

Two Fresno residents were killed in a solo-vehicle crash on Interstate 5 in Kern County, with a 70-year-old woman pronounced dead on the scene and a 67-year-old woman pronounced dead at the local ...

A former top Kern County Republican Party official and a one-time member of former Supervisor Zack Scrivner’s staff, has admitted to bank fraud in a case involving embezzlement from the ...

Tulare and Fresno counties will not repeat as the top ag producing counties in the nation after they were passed up by a ...

A former treasurer of the Kern County Republican Central Committee pleaded guilty to bank fraud Monday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of California.

A new wildfire was reported today at 9:54 a.m. in Kern County. Mobius Fire has been burning on private land. At this time, ...

Fahra Daredia with Kern County Library joined 17 News at Sunrise to discuss the Fall 2024 One Book Project. This fall, the ...

Bryan M. Williams pleaded guilty to bank fraud after misappropriating up to $435,000 from a Kern County political group.