Desa Harper recalls spending the better part of her life searching for her grandmother, a woman she'd heard about but never met. She and other family members exhausted the traditional search methods of using birth, marriage and death records. Then,...

Recently, a public-service announcement was posted online with the hopes of bringing attention to the issue of texting while driving. The dramatized PSA features teens who are involved in a head-on collision after being distracted by texting on their phones.

For the last several years, homeowners have had their properties across the valley occupied by people without permission, a practice called "squatting." ”We hear about it, if not weekly, on a monthly basis that someone is squatting in a vacant...

Citrus farmers from around the valley are preparing their crops for the freezing temperatures expected to arrive in Kern county this week.

Kern County Mental Health director Dr. Jim Waterman says over the past several years, the approach to mental health treatment has changed.

Statewide, the average teacher pay is just over $68,000 a year. The average superintendent is collecting roughly $167,000 a year.

After a rash of car thefts in her neighborhood, one woman says her family decided to take action. Now, she knows exactly who she is looking for. She credits her surveillance system for catching a photo of a robber stealing a security camera right...