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Apr 18, 2013 at 5:11 PM
A "huge" high school talent competition and air-band competition is this weekend, with the winner taking home $750, according to organizers.
Apr 4, 2013 at 6:01 PM
Bullet train officials say they'll keep listening to Kern County concerns about the proposed route for the high-speed rail project. The promise came at the end of a long meeting Thursday in Fresno, where the High Speed Authority board got an...
Apr 4, 2013 at 3:21 PM
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is holding a poster contest for some high school students in Bakersfield, aimed at bringing awareness to the endangered kit fox.
Apr 4, 2013 at 3:16 PM

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is holding a poster contest for some high school students in Bakersfield, aimed at bringing awareness to the endangered kit fox.

San Joaquin kit fox...
Apr 3, 2013 at 11:32 PM
High-speed rail board officials have released the route they are calling the preferred alternative through Bakersfield.
Apr 3, 2013 at 11:07 PM
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — High-speed rail board officials have released the route they are calling the preferred alternative through Bakersfield.

The route took into consideration previous objections and made changes from earlier...
Mar 27, 2013 at 2:29 PM
A 1941 Pearl Harbor victim's Purple Heart found along a California road has been returned to his East Texas family thanks to a teacher and his students.
Mar 5, 2013 at 11:29 AM
It wasn't the pile of beer bottles or the smashed glass on the fireplace. It wasn't even the El Camino sitting in the driveway, unable to move because it has no engine. It was the smell.
Feb 27, 2013 at 9:30 AM
A Bakersfield soldier killed in the Korean War is finally home. The remains of Army Pfc. Roosevelt Clark arrived Wednesday morning at Los Angeles International Airport from Hawaii.
Jan 24, 2013 at 2:16 PM
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — Federal officials held an informational meeting Monday night for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Jan 24, 2013 at 2:16 PM

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — Federal officials held an informational meeting Monday night for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Under the program, qualified applicants are eligible for a work permit, and...
Jan 11, 2013 at 6:25 PM
Kern High School District officials said extra security Friday was a precaution because of rumblings of a conflict or threats of violence, though police said the threats weren't credible.
Jan 11, 2013 at 6:24 PM
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — Extra Bakersfield police officers patrolled the campus of Bakersfield High School on Friday, after officers said they picked up word of threats of a possible campus shooting. The school was never on lockdown, but...
Nov 8, 2012 at 5:30 PM

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — A former soldier from Bakersfield who survived a tour of duty in Iraq was killed Wednesday while working a construction job in Madera County.

James Chvala Jr., 25, graduated from Bakersfield High...
Nov 8, 2012 at 11:10 AM
A former soldier from Bakersfield who survived a tour of duty in Iraq was killed Wednesday while working a construction job in Madera County.