With the storm expecting to due more flood damage to the north of Kern County, a Bakersfield Fire Department water rescue team has been deployed to the Merced area. Battalion Chief Tim Ortiz says the six-member unit will be there to help in case people get stuck in their cars, or other places where they…… Read More
Hundreds of Kern County high schoolers got to hear from motivational speakers and others on how to succeed in life at Thursday’s Leaders in Life Youth Conference at the Mechanics Bank Convention Center. Bakersfield High School Junior Justyn Shoemake has attended for several years, and is now one of the student organizers… This was the…… Read More
Here at KUZZ, we appreciate our dedicated listeners, but one has gone as far as having the station’s logo tattooed on her arm. It’s no small tattoo, either. It covers her entire left forearm. Delaney Wanzer says she did it in memory of her grandmother, who raised her and her two siblings… Wanzer is 25…… Read More
The Bakersfield Fire Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying who they are calling ‘a person of interest’ for a fire at the Home Depot on Gosford Road on February 18. The man is described as white, in his early to mid twenties, with short black hair. He was last seen wearing dark…… Read More
A very long Kern County Board of Supervisors meeting got rowdy at times while they were talking voting machines. The Board voted 3-2 to keep the controversial Dominion machines for the next three years. Many from the public were not happy, with one instance causing this exchange between Board Chair Jeff Flores and a speaker……… Read More
It was a wintry weekend in Kern County, but these storms are not over yet… Meteorologist Jim Bagnall with the National Weather Service in Hanford says the Tehachapi and Fort Tejon areas got a couple of feet of snow over the weekend, and Bakersfield got close to two inches of rain. The National Weather Service…… Read More
It’s not a term you ever hear in California, but meteorologists say a blizzard is headed to Tehachapi. City Manager Greg Garrett says the city is prepared… He’s telling residents not to go out if you don’t have to, and keep an eye on your neighbor. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration defines a blizzard…… Read More
A previously convicted felon who is not allowed to have firearms has been arrested after several weapons were found, along with dangerous drugs. Bakersfield Police Sergeant Robert Pair says 40 year-old Richard Gomez was arrested without incident and booked into the county jail. Pair would not say, though, if Gomez was acting alone… The search…… Read More
There were truckers in convoys in the 70s, but this is different… Organizer Ollie Danner claims it will be the first zero-emission convoy in the nation in Bakersfield tomorrow. It’s part of the San Joaquin Valley Clean Cities Association’s ‘Trucking With Clean Fuels’ Conference at the Westchester in Bakersfield… You can see the convoy between…… Read More
A school shooting threat at Bakersfield High School has been deemed not credible, and it came from two kids playing a video game back east. Bakersfield High was placed on lockdown briefly around 3:30 yesterday [Tuesday] afternoon, after most of the students were gone for the day. Police Sergeant Robert Pair says investigators did their…… Read More
