Bakersfield Metro News

A state appeals court has overturned the conviction and sentence of a Bakersfield man accused of raping his 10-year-old daughter.

A 25-year-old Bakersfield man was arrested early Friday on suspicion of robbery and attempted murder.

The company of a Bakersfield man killed in a place crash are grieving. Doug Sharratt was killed Wednesday in Oregon.

A man was killed Monday night when he was hit by a car while crossing a street in southwest Bakersfield.

The pilot of a small plane has died in a crash while landing at the Central Oregon resort town of Sunriver.

A garage fire caused more than $100,000 in damage to a northeast Bakersfield residence Tuesday afternoon.

State officials say a vineyard worker who collapsed during a heat wave last week is still in critical condition in a Bakersfield hospital.

Tuesday morning County Supervisors revisited a local law that prevents sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or park.

The family of Angela Horton is asking for the community's prayers after the 17-year-old Liberty High student accidentally drowned in a bath tub Monday morning.

Some said it was one of the most horrific crimes Kern County ever saw. Today marks the five year anniversary of the harper family murders.

Sheriffs detectives are investigating the suspicious death of a one month old newborn.

Erskine Creek feeds the Kern River below the Lake Isabella dam, and Erskine Creek is fed by the Piute Mountain water shed.

A Kern County man was sentenced to 21 years in state prison Thursday, more than six years after shooting to death a teenager at a Bakersfield billiards hall.

Cal-OSHA, California's Occupational Safety and Health agency, is investigating the Wednesday death of a farm laborer in Kern County Wednesday as another possible heat-related fatality on the job.

A pretrial hearing was postponed in Merced Superior Court on Friday for a lieutenant with the Bakersfield office of the California Highway Patrol.

Crews battling wildfires across California are finding there's trouble on the wind.

A Bakersfield woman e-mailed 17-News after she learned a sex offender was living just across the street from the school her children attend.

In the 17 Follow Up File tonight.... We have new information about the Bakersfield man arrested after deputies found three naked boys in his mobile home.

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State officials report that 19 workers have been hospitalized for heat-related illnesses since temperatures inland started soaring Wednesday.