The Kern County Sheriff’s Office is warning the public about an ongoing phone scam in which individuals impersonating Sheriff ...

The Ford City Park splash pad was announced in May 2022 by then-Supervisor Zack Scrivner as a $600,0000 project that would be ...

Derald Val Wildharber, 83, of Taft, California, passed away on June 22, 2025, in Mesquite, Nevada. Known for his warm smile ...

Kern County Sheriff's deputies should soon be able to leave the cracking, crumbling and settling Taft substation for much ...

West Hills Church of the Nazarene is holding its annual Vacation Bible School "Diving into Friendship with God" next week ...

Congressman Vince Fong, joined by his fellow members of the California Republican Congressional Delegation, issued the following joint statement yesterday: ...

Hit-and-run suspect Alejandro Padilla is being held on $165,000 bail and is now in Kern County Sheriff's custody.

A fire burned weeds and brush in a dry drainage ditch on the 200 block of Eastern Avenue Tuesday after and spread into a ...

The Kern County Coroner has identified the motorcyclist killed in a collision on Sunday morning as Joe Paul M. Gongora Jr., 47, of Taft.

Hit-and-run suspect Alejandro Padilla surrendered to law enforcement officers Tuesday afternoon, according to Taft Police.

A brush fire blackened almost 80 acres in the North Belridge area Saturday evening. Kern County firefighters were dispatched ...

Taft Police have identified the suspect in a fatal hit-and-run collision that killed a motorcyclist Sunday morning.