The Kern County Fire Department is reminding residents that if their fireworks do not bear the California State Marshal's ...

With daily temperatures averaging in the triple digits and an active fire season, authorities up and down the state are urging the public to be safe with fireworks this Independence Day. Sales of ...

A two-alarm vegetation fire broke out at 12007 S. Union Ave in Bakersfield, prompting a swift response from multiple Kern ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 7:12 p.m. in Kern County, California. Oilfield Fire has been burning on private land.

Evacuation warnings for the Madre Fire have now reached into our Kern County neighborhoods. The community of Fellows is now ...

The Fourth of July brings joy and excitement to many. For others, it brings disaster, in the form of an inferno.

The smell of smoke in the air in parts of Kern County is from the massive wildfire burning in San Luis Obispo, fire officials ...

The Trump administration plans to rescind the Roadless Rule and reopen the Los Padres National Forest to industrial logging and road-building.

All legal fireworks in California must be marked with the “Safe and Sane” seal from the State Fire Marshal. The governor’s office said the state has already seized more than 600,000 pounds ...

June 30, 2025 - SACRAMENTO – With Fourth of July celebrations set to go off with a bang across the state this week, Governor Gavin Newsom and state fire officials are reminding all Californians ...