A Kern County lawmaker is speaking out on the case of Amanda Zubia, the 17-year-old brutally murdered in 2004. 17 News has ...

A suspected serial killer once scrutinized for a possible link to the O.J. Simpson case that riveted the nation in the 1990s ...

Police were in pursuit of an armed suspect along 5 and 10 Freeways. The pursuit came to an end as the front tires of the SUV were blown out and the suspect was taken into custody in Cheviot Hills.

Seventy percent of the stolen money came from Kern County — $96,740 in benefits stolen from 147 Kern County beneficiaries.

It was a wild car chase of more than 100 miles and it ended in Los Angeles. It started in downtown Bakersfield at a ...

What we found out that in about 90 to 91% of every ShotSpotter alert that we get, we do not receive a corresponding 911 call," said Bakersfield Police Assistant Chief Brent Stratton.

Ricardo Mathews, son of legendary funk singer Rick James, was sentenced Wednesday for assaulting a fellow inmate in prison.

The new bag policy is in response to an uptick in retail theft across the state, an issue so problematic that state officials ...

A man found dead inside a vehicle near Wasco with signs of trauma has been identified as Brandon Christian Cisneros, 22, of ...

A construction magnate and more than a dozen other people have surrendered to police on criminal negligence charges for the collapse of a Bangkok high-rise during a March 28 earthquake.

Matthew Naval was arrested after authorities say they found him with the missing girl and her pet bird in an Elk Grove strip ...