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 ...

Health care costs are projected to rise by 2026, and local experts warn employers may pass those increases onto workers.

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

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

A person was hospitalized after being hit by a car on South Union Avenue in south Bakersfield, according to the California Highway Patrol Incident Page.

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Pope Leo XIV has told over a million Catholic youths they are a sign that a different world is possible. Speaking at the ...

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.