At least dozens of homeless individuals have died in Kern County this year, according to those who worked with these people almost every day. …

California’s nursing agency has approved rules that will allow nurse practitioners to treat patients without physician supervision. It’s a mov…

The Bakersfield Fire Department received a more than $16,000 grant from Cal Water to buy three battery-powered ventilation fans to be used whi…

Speculative development is still going strong in Kern's industrial real estate market with a pair of "tilt-up" warehouses under construction e…

When was the last time you thanked a first responder?

During the pandemic, California’s low-income families who are required to pay a fee to receive subsidized child care got a waiver from paying.…

The need for therapists, social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists is greater than ever. Under relentless pressure from the pandemic and…

Kern's Medi-Cal plan administrator hopes to close gaps in how the county's poorest residents receive health care with its award earlier this m…

A little over a year after California launched a program to provide hearing aids for an estimated 2,300 children annually who lack health insu…