The City of Bakersfield has received a $22.8 million grant to address substance abuse in Bakersfield and Kern County. The grant from the State of California’s Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure allows the city and county to join efforts to create a 65-bed substance use treatment facility for adults and perinatal women. In February, the Bakersfield…… Read More
A person with signs of trauma was found dead inside a vehicle near Wasco. Kern County Sheriff’s deputies responded around 9 a.m. Tuesday to the area of Dresser and Western avenues where the man was pronounced dead at the scene. No suspects have been identified or arrested. Anyone with information is asked to call the…… Read More
A DUI checkpoint lands four Bakersfield drivers in jail. Police made the arrests Friday night in the 2400 block of Union Avenue. Twenty eight people got tickets for driving without a license and five drivers were cited for for driving on a suspended license. Out of 1,204 vehicles which passed through the checkpoint, fourteen drivers…… Read More
Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood announced Monday he’s supporting Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco for California governor. Bianco announced his candidacy in February. Bianco is a Republican who blames the state’s problems such as soaring gas prices, high crime rates, and uncontrolled homelessness on Democrats. Bianco has been the sheriff of Riverside County since 2018.…… Read More
A Bakersfield man has pleaded guilty to shining a laser at a Kern County Sheriff’s helicopter. Federal prosecutors say Brett Hair, 23, struck the aircraft at least fifteen times while it flew near Meadows Field Airport last September. Deputies tracked the laser to a home where Hair allegedly aimed the beam directly into the cockpit.…… Read More
TMZ reports Torey Lanez was attacked by another prisoner Monday in the yard at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi. Lanez was taken to Bakersfield hospital. Authorities say his injuries are not life threatening. Lanez is serving ten years for shooting Grammy winner hip- hop artist Megan Thee Stallion, striking her in the feet. The…… Read More
A gun battle leaves two men dead and two others injured in Arvin. A man between 18 and 20 years old and man in his mid-twenties were pronounced dead at the scene after a hail of bullets showered the neighborhood near the intersection of Bautista Street and Soledad Drive around 4:30 Saturday morning. An adult…… Read More
The investigation continues after a Kern County Sheriff’s deputy suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the hand during an officer-involved shooting in northeast Bakersfield. Deputies were called to the 600 block of Water Street around 6:30 a.m. Friday after getting reports of a man armed with a hammer, a machete, and a gun. Three people…… Read More
The Bakersfield Police Department’s bomb squad responded Sunday to Bakersfield Heart Hospital Sunday following the discovery of a small destructive device. Police say a security guard found the device inside the hospital on Sillect Avenue and removed it from the building. There’s no word exactly what was found. The bomb squad was called in as…… Read More
CBS News — After white smoke emerged from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican and Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected as the Catholic Church’s new leader, people across Los Angeles celebrated the news of the first American-born pope. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who selected Leo XIV as his papal name, made his…… Read More
