Kern County News

If you're hitting the road this holiday weekend, bring your patience with you. Although AAA projects fewer people are getting away this 4th of July, millions of people will still travel by car.

Child abuse investigations in Kern County have risen nearly 20 percent within the last year.

This is the week of America's birthday, and what better week to dedicate the nation's newest National Veterans Cemetery.

One of four men busted in an undercover drug sting in Bakersfield entered guilty plea in Federal Court Tuesday.

Actor Tom Sizemore was back in a Kern County courtroom Monday after getting in trouble with the law again.

Athletics is a big part of the fabric of Kern County, and parents and coaches came together Monday to try to save junior varsity sports.

A Bakersfield man was the ''Robin Hood'' leader of a Kern County smuggling operation that sold millions of dollars of cocaine to gangs in Canada and used the money to help impoverished villagers in India, according to testimony at a federal trial.

The unemployment rate in Kern County dropped to 14.2 percent in May, according to data released Friday, June 19.

When Josh Preston asked us to take him to the Kern County Sheriff's Department for questioning he seemed to know that he wouldn't be coming home.

The body of a Kern County native killed in action in Iraq was scheduled to be returned to Bakersfield Thursday morning.

Animal rescuer Kimi Peck met the Kern County deadline for removing her approximately 200 dogs from her Water Canyon property, winding up three weeks of feverish activity by 5 p.m. June 23.

Tuesday, the Kern County Supervisors appointed Public Health Director John Nilon as County Administrative Officer.

Music legend Phil Spector has a new home in California's largest state prison. Spector, 69, was moved Monday to the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison at Corcoran, where 6,919 other inmates are housed, according to a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections.

Kern County Fire Departments second helicopter, Helicopter 407, was revamped and delivered by San Joaquin Helicopters from Delano just a week ago.

Five victims have accused Mark Petrina, a former Kern County Sheriff's deputy, of sexually abusing them at his house in Bakersfield.

Crews have made quick work of a wildfire that burned through 61 acres of brush in a rural area east of Bakersfield.

As Justin Erbacher was sentenced to a century in prison in a headline-grabbing molestation case, another huge child abuse case was quietly unfolding in the same courtroom.

Caltrans crews are scheduled to start a $3 million pavement resurfacing project along Highway 58 from Mojave to the San Bernardino County line Monday.

Unemployment in Kern County dropped a little bit in May, but still was way above the rate for May, 2008, according to statistics released Friday morning.

Supervisors held a special meeting to discuss the county budget and how to close a massive budget gap.