The Bakersfield Fire Department is set to roll out a new ordinance aimed at safeguarding neighborhoods from wildfires even in urban neighborhoods.

Two veterans of note have passed in the last four days: Veterans of different eras and very different experiences, with at ...

All-Star pitcher Bryan Woo is throwing a no-hitter for the Seattle Mariners through six innings against the New York Yankees on Thursday night. Woo opened the game by walking ...

The U.S. Marshals task force is asking the community to help in finding a parolee at large. Fred Lara, 57, is on parole for failing to register as a sex ...

A date has been set for the official grand opening of downtown’s renovated and modernized Woolworth’s building – Oct. 25. If ...

Despite its growth, records show the shelter averaged a 96% capacity rate earlier this year, and an average of 55 people are ...

A bill to regulate college sports introduced in the House on Thursday would offer limited antitrust protection for the NCAA, while barring schools from using student fees to pay ...

Their sex operation was found as far as Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, and a handful of other states, court documents revealed.

Four people were arrested on suspicion of shooting and killing a woman near Wasco following an extensive investigation that involved several arrest and search ...

Two employees at an Arkansas prison where an inmate known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” escaped have been fired for policy violations, corrections officials said Thursday ...

A confrontation erupted Thursday between protesters and federal officials carrying out a raid on a Southern California farm, with authorities throwing canisters that sprayed what looked like smoke ...

Two men serving time at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano were convicted Wednesday of assaulting another inmate with homemade weapons and beating him with his ...