The city of Bakersfield is down to just two candidates to be the next chief of police, with both candidates coming from inside the department.

Federal prosecutors are challenging a magistrate judge’s decision this week to grant the release of a Bakersfield police detective accused of …

A 13-year veteran of the Bakersfield Police Department has been arrested on suspicion of illegal possession of obscene material involving a minor.

Five months after the investigation into the former Delano police chief suspected of arranging sex with a minor began, the Kern County Sheriff…

After a Bakersfield police officer was charged with assault under the color of authority earlier this week, an internal BPD report revealed th…

Nearly three months after a former Delano chief of police was arrested on suspicion of attempting to arrange to meet with a minor for sex, the…

Three suspects who stole about 52 pairs of high-end sunglasses valued at $15,000 from Sunglass Hut in Valley Plaza and used pepper spray on lo…

The Kern County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday a shooting in which a man was hospitalized after a deputy fired his gun was ruled within depart…

The Kern County Sheriff's Office is seeking information about a dead man in a residence in the 3200 block of Montello Street who had been in a…

The Condors former head athletics trainer pursued sex with a Kern County sheriff’s detective posing as a 15-year-old boy on a dating app, acco…