The community of Rexland Acres is tense while the search continues for a man suspected of molesting a 6-year-old girl.

Neighbors in a northwest Bakersfield area ended up with no water over the weekend, but a nearby water company is coming to the rescue. The Seventh Standard Mutual Water Co. serves 22 homes, and their system went down. But, Oildale Mutual Water...

City officials are the latest to raise issues over the new, so-called "sweepstakes" cafes. The police chief says the businesses are on his radar, and at least one City Council member wants a good, hard look at them.

Empty train cars have sat for years on some tracks near Arvin, and neighbors say they're a real eyesore and a magnet for crime. Again, Eyewitness News asks Amtrak when the nuisance will be gone.

State Senate candidate Leticia Perez has signed a lease for a home on 18th Street in central Bakersfield, part of the 16th Senate District, her campaign said late Tuesday. Perez is scheduled to be at the Kern County Registrar of Voters Office on ...

Neighbors in an area south of Bakersfield say a trucking operation has moved in, and they want it stopped. The man with the trucks has applied for a county conditional use permit, and at least one nearby homeowner hopes he won't get it.

A northeast Bakersfield neighborhood has suffered for about a year with a noisy nuisance. The situation has made life miserable for residents near College Avenue and Fairfax Road. It turns out the culprit is a squatter -- of sorts.

A horrible smell and oozing blood led Arvin officials to the badly decomposing remains of a dog, apparently left for days in the city's Animal Control truck.

After seeing homeless men and even drug deals in an alley near a school, a Kern County woman told Eyewitness News that she wants action to clean up the mess. It turns out the area isn't really an alley, and several county agencies say they'll work...