The Kern County District Attorney’s Office has extended a plea offer to a boy who was 13 when charged in connection with the ...

A man was charged with a felony after allegedly stabbing his ex-girlfriend’s hand with a machete during an argument, ...

A 25-year-old man faces up to 27 years to life in prison for shooting at cars on two separate nights after getting into a ...

A man convicted of two rape cases in 1983 and 1990, and forcing an inmate to have orally copulate him, was denied parole.The ...

It’s possible a briefing and hearing schedule will be set next week in the legal battle between the Greenfield Union School ...

There's almost no telling what 2025 has in store. But based on what happened locally last year, things are likely to occur that may generate news around Kern County. NEW LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS The ...

A man was convicted of attempted murder, attempted voluntary manslaughter and several other charges Tuesday for shooting ...

District 5 Supervisor Leticia Perez took her seat atop the Kern County Board of Supervisors on Monday selected to be its chairwoman.

Kern County is making its first use of Proposition 36, a new law passed in the last election aimed at increasing criminal penalties for repeat theft and drug offenders.

The man who was convicted of shooting and killing his former neighbor as he stepped out onto his front porch was sentenced ...

Arguments over the preliminary injunction that had mandated water be kept in the Kern River for fish are tentatively scheduled for sometime in mid-March at the 5th District Court of Appeal, according ...