BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — California is grappling with one of the highest numbers of human trafficking cases in the nation, and ...

California’s 2025 auto insurance laws increase minimum liability coverage for drivers. Though it may lead to higher premiums and more uninsured drivers.

Exxon Mobil Corp. has filed a federal defamation lawsuit against California Attorney General Rob Bonta and several ...

Federal immigration agents will be conducting operations and raids in Bakersfield this week, according to local officials.

In order to begin laying track on the long-anticipated railway, workers will build a railhead outside the city of Shafter, about 30 minutes north of Bakersfield. This development comes 10 years to the ...

Reports of federal immigration agents in Kern County on Tuesday reverberated through the community as video circulating online raised fears about workplace raids and deportations.

The PD reporter shares her journey from growing up in Southern California to covering the local business scene she loved as a ...

You’re not imagining it. Traffic congestion worsened last year in just about every American city studied by navigation and ...

A motorcyclist was hospitalized Sunday evening after colliding with a horse on Houghton Road. At about 6:05 p.m., California ...

No one was hurt after an officer accidentally discharged his gun during a call in central Bakersfield early Tuesday ...

Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the California high-speed rail project is poised to begin laying tracks, marking a ...

California and transportation officials met near Bakersfield to celebrate a high-speed rail system to connect the Golden State with Nevada.