Bakersfield News

Authorities say they've put a Central California high school on lockdown and cancelled classes after three chemical explosions on the school's campus.

A crash involving a semitrailer truck carrying about 35,000 pounds of grapes crashed in a freeway divider in Monrovia.

Serenity Melgar, 7, dances in front of the Oxnard High School Marching Band on Sunday at the California Strawberry Festival.

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ARTHUR: Our coverage of the death in custody of David Sal Silva has been read around the world and has drawn many comments.

Ridgeview High School star quarterback Kamari Cotton-Moya, 18, was shot in the chest just after midnight Sunday morning when gunfire broke out at a large party in east Bakersfield.

Kern County Sheriff's Deputies said they arrived at a party at 2200 Edwards Avenue when they got a call that shots were being fired.

Any plans that California-based Liberty Energy had to establish an alternative energy facility in Hamilton are now on some forgotten shelf collecting dust.

The Mt. Diablo school board will announce its choice for interim Superintendent on Monday, after officially severing ties with the superintendent and general counsel.

Just a little south and east of Bakersfield, in the high desert , there is a war going on.

Lisa McNeece, who has spent the past 22 years developing foodservice markets for Grimmway Enterprises Inc.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - The Kern County Fire Department is battling a massive wildfire 2 miles east of Frazier Park .

The sentencing of Joseph Burciaga, who murdered another man, set fire to the house where the killing occurred and then fled to Mexico, was postponed to June 6 Thursday to allow his attorney time to determine if he wants to file a motion for a new trial.

The Panama-Buena Vista Union School District is scrambling to figure out how it's going to deal with overcrowding at some schools now that the school board has backed away from a proposal to redraw school attendance boundaries.

For the last three summers, the sound and fury of the annual Memorial Stadium fireworks show -- a tradition for thousands of Kern County families -- was replaced by the sound of ... crickets.

Nathalie Martinez, center, chose to have her daughters, Jordin, left, and Nathalie, right, vaccinated for HPV after she was diagnosed with cervical cancer.

The Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce in partnership with Alianza Recycling and Recovery LLC , is holding a fundraising e-waste recycling drive this Saturday May 18 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. As partners in keeping Bakersfield green, Alianza and the Greater Bakersfield Chamber will have all proceeds directed to the Chamber's work in the community! ... (more)

With just a week to go, the campaign for the 16th District state Senate race is growing predictably nasty.

Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood holds a news conference Tuesday afternoon at the Norris Road headquarters regarding his request that the FBI analyze the two cell phones seized in connection with the in-custody death of David Silva.

When one of Janie Olvera's nine sisters had preventative double mastectomy to reduce her risk of developing breast cancer, Olvera thought she was crazy.