An officer is recovering after being stabbed by an inmate in Kern County this weekend. The attack happened yesterday just ...

Prison officials are investigating an assault on an officer at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano. Early Saturday evening, a prisoner stabbed an officer with “an improvised weapon” as the incarcerated ...

Dijon Barber, a convicted robber, has been captured in Las Vegas after walking away from an L.A. County reentry program, the ...

Bakersfield police reported clearing 31 encampments along the Kern River in an operation Wednesday that included 28 arrests ...

The Kern County Sheriff’s Office and Search and Rescue is thanking the community for supporting one of its K9’s who was in ...

A group of retired law enforcement officers and veterans in Kern County is working to raise awareness and support for PTSD and mental health struggles among veterans and first responders.

The man accused of killing one woman and hurting another was in court Thursday, in connection to a South Bakersfield shooting ...

The Franklin County Board of Commissioners has taken control of the county jail from the Sheriff's Office, establishing a new Department of Corrections. This decision followed ...

For the first time since his arrest in connection with kidnapping a 10-year-old girl he met playing the online game Roblox, an Elk Grove man spoke to a reporter while in jail. He denied all the ...

Another officer placed a tourniquet on the downed officer while the Director of Public Safety went after and engaged the suspect at gunpoint. The suspect who shot the officer is a 17-year-old girl.

One person was arrested and another rescued in a human-trafficking investigation conducted by t Police Department and the Kern County Sheriff's office in partnership with other local, state and ...

Matthew Macatuno Naval was charged with kidnapping and unlawful sexual conduct with a minor Sunday, authorities said.