A death investigation is underway after a man was shot and killed in the backyard of a home in northwest Bakersfield.

Police have arrested two people after finding an 8-year-old girl with “substantial trauma” dead and abandoned in a bathtub at a Bakersfield hotel. Police said Ray Mata Jr., 31, of Bakersfield and ...

A death investigation is underway after a child's body was discovered inside the La Quinta Inn in central Bakersfield.

A Bakersfield man and a Delano woman were arrested Saturday on suspicion of torturing and murdering an 8-year-old girl and leaving her body in a hotel bathtub.

A Bakersfield mother who has waited more than three years for justice in the hit-and-run death of her 16-year-old son will ...

The Bakersfield Police Department requested the community’s help in identifying a vehicle believed to be involved in a south ...

With Black-owned businesses making up just 9% of Bakersfield, a local organization — the Black Business Dollar Initiative — that has connected over 400 of them is now coming to an end.

Several vehicles were involved in a crash on Highway 58 at Highway 223 Thursday evening, according to the CHP's website. At ...

The Bakersfield location of Planned Parenthood laid off two of its employees in July, according to the WARN letters issued to ...

A 28-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison without parole for a deadly car-to-car shooting in central Bakersfield.

During a time when most California cities dropped in national rankings for renters, Fresno and Bakersfield were some of the ...

BAKERSFIELD — The Kern River cascades from the Sierra Nevada in a steep-sided canyon, coursing through granite boulders, and flows to the northeast side of Bakersfield. There, beside cottonwoods ...