Previously convicted of murder, Marvin R. Markle Jr., 59, is charged with the November 1982 killing of De Anna Lynn Johnson, 14, and leaving her body along railroad tracks in.

The Drought Monitor map ... east of Sacramento was at 70% capacity, state data indicated, up 33% from January. According to the state water resource agency, San Luis Reservoir in Merced County ...

Bass Lake kicking out big trout, Mike Beighey reported. New Melones bass moving shallow, Kyle Wise said. McClure Res ...

Flames broke out on the east side of Bakersfield on a rainy Thursday morning, marking yet another fire at a site notorious ...

Community members of Kern County walk the dry riverbed in protest for the water restoration in the Kern River. The river was ...

More snow is expected to fall in the Kern County mountains, the Grapevine Friday, and another storm is on the way Monday, but we’ll have to wait for the data to see a dent in the drought.

Now, Socorro Escalera is celebrating a full century – her own. Family members announced the big day on the Fox Theater marquee.

KERN COUNTY, Calif. — It has been more than six weeks since U.S. Border Patrol agents from the agency’s El Centro sector launched a three-day raid in rural stretches of Kern County ...

Kern County Employees' Retirement Association, Bakersfield, Calif., hired Aristotle Pacific Capital to manage a $240 million short-duration fixed-income portfolio, according to materials included ...