The brutal murder of a McFarland woman Penelope Sanchez left three young children without a mother. Sanchez's sister Georgina Rocha is among the family members that are now trying to deal with the tragic loss.
Two teens were shot at a party in East Bakersfield early Sunday, one of them was the Hometown Sports Player of the Year, 18-year-old Kamari Cotton-Moya, a stand-out athlete from Ridgeview high. The other, also an 18-year-old and also a football player was identified as Kolin Jones, who played for Frontier high.
A woman was hospitalized Saturday night after she was shot in the head in her eastern Bakersfield home.
After experiencing multiple delays, the Kern County Raceway Park officially opened to the public in Bakersfield, Calif. on May 18, 2013.
Two California tickets matched five numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing and one of them was sold at a store in Taft. Each of those tickets is worth $2,309,228.
The $239 million National Science Foundation project will install video cameras, seismic monitors and other gauges along a volcano in deep waters off the Pacific Northwest coast
State prison officials say a study on the early impacts of so-called prison realignment show positive results. But critics point to negative data in the report, and Kern County prosecutors say it fails to analyze significant factors.
Bakersfield College officials said Friday that they'd like to appeal sanctions announced earlier this week against their football program.
The single winner for the highest Powerball jackpot in history was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla.,
An Arvin grandfather was hospitalized late Friday after a planned custody visit for the mother of his grandchildren went awry.
(New) 3 orphaned in McFarland murder: 'I don't want them to forget their mom'
