Early Thursday morning, crews from the city of Bakersfield and Kern County fire departments were dispatched to the 3100 block of Taft Highway after receiving reports of a fire at Galvan Tire Inc. The ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — One person was killed in a two-vehicle accident on Taft Highway Friday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol. CHP officials said the driver of Nissan van ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Suspected drunk driver fails to stop at stop sign on Taft hwy and Old River Road. The driver continues to drive across the intersection into the victim's house, destroying ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A gas leak has prompted the closure of roads at Taft Hwy and South H Street in south Bakersfield on Thursday afternoon. Fire crews were called to the 1500 block of Taft ...

The Taft CCF currently houses inmates for the United States Marshal and Bureau of Prisons and Jones said, but has room for up to 400 more inmates, McMinn told the Bakersfield Californian. Now, the ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The California Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal crash reported on Highway 119 near Elk Hills Tuesday evening. A 38-year-old woman from Taft was killed Tuesday ...

Nearly two years after an alleged drunk driver crashed into a house off of Taft Highway and Old River Road, a man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of crashing into the same house under similar ...