KERN COUNTY, CA - A preliminary 2.6 magnitude quake was recorded near Bodfish Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey ...

Kern County was hit by a 5.3 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday night, centered in Lamont, California, not far from Bakersfield, according to the USGS. The 5.3 earthquake hit at 9:09 p.m. PT and was ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said after the 5.2 magnitude earthquake hit Kern County Tuesday, many Californians received an alert before serious shaking started thanks to a first-in-the-nation early ...

This tiny farming burg south of Bakersfield has a population of 66 — and dropping. Since its founding in the 1940s by potato farmer Clifford Alvin Mettler, Mettler has been kind of a place ...