Bakersfield News

An air tanker that crashed in Kyrgyzstan was rolling to the left and right so violently that the tail section tore free, causing the aircraft to plunge toward the ground and explode in mid-air, an Air Force report said Thursday.

Environmental groups released a report Thursday intended to return public attention to earthquake risks associated with underground injection activity in oilfields near Bakersfield and other California population centers.

SAFETY: The rash of speeding-related accidents around town -- the last one on Saturday when a 54-year-old man was killed on Gosford Road -- has folks talking about road safety.

Drivers under a buttermilk sky use the newly renovated H Street on-ramp to Highway 58 east.

During Thursday's "Healthy Knights Fair" put on by students from the Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Evan Lee, left, works with Noble Elementary School students Xavier Quinones, Jesse Guadron and Mari Cruz Magana, right.

A dog hangs around an abandoned farmhouse near Bakersfield, California. Now in its third straight year of unprecedented drought, California is experiencing its driest year on record, dating back 119 years and possible the worst in the the past 500 years.

Pete Anderson spent 17 years standing in the shadow of country star Dwight Yoakam .

BUSHY BARRIER: Go ahead and hedge your bets that walls of green won't be going away any time soon.

The 14th Annual Kern County Teacher Recruitment Fair is scheduled to take place Saturday, April 26 from 8 a.m. to noon at the Larry E. Reider Education Center, 2000 K Street in Bakersfield.

Opponents of a proposed Islamic Center, school and mosque in west Bakersfield succeeded Tuesday in delaying the project and forcing its supporters to complete a costly Environmental Impact Report.

In a telling sign of the digital age, phone directory publisher YP is no longer delivering white pages residential listings to Sacramento and other markets in California and other states.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A group of talented local artists are taking their talents to the ultimate level as they compete in the Hard Rock Hotel's "Global Battle of the Bands."

The couple is enduring a backlash, complete with nasty phone calls and threats to picket their Truxtun Avenue restaurant, over an anti-fracking petition they insist they never signed.

The San Jose Mercury News says that means more than more than 255,000 homeowners and businesses statewide can still use all the water they want without seeing higher bills.

Sheriff's officials say a Central California boy is ok after a gun he and other students discovered at a school bus stop discharged.

A normal morning walk to a northeast Bakersfield school bus stop took a dangerous turn Tuesday when four young boys found a loaded handgun on the ground.

A farm worker drives a tractor near a well drilling site on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014 near Pixley, Calif.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A woman and her pet dogs were rescued from a house fire in East Bakersfield early Monday morning.

The Kern County Scripps National Spelling Bee hosted by 23ABC took place Monday at California State University Bakersfield and a competitor from Bakersfield is headed to Washington D.C. 23ABC streamed the whole entire competition live as elementary and middle school students from all over the county battled it out to see who was the best speller.

The tanker trains loaded with crude oil still rattle down the tracks at the end of the alleyway where Merle Haggard, a living legend of country music, grew up in a boxcar that his father transformed into the family home.