Britain is enduring another summer heat wave after recording its hottest day of the year Thursday. People also have been ...

A Powerball ticket sold in western Illinois has won a $1 billion jackpot. Lottery officials say the ticket that won the ...

Bakersfield police are searching for a 13-year-old bicyclist who allegedly crashed into a pedestrian, causing minor injuries, at about 3 p.m. June 15 in front of the Target store at Valley Plaza mall.

Two powerful earthquakes less than two months apart have exposed stark differences in how neighboring Venezuela and Colombia ...

The top editor of Forbes left his job last month and was reportedly dismissed for accepting $6 million from the founder of a firm that does business with the magazine. The New York Times reported this ...

Tennessee and Oklahoma put inmates to death within 30 minutes of each other Thursday as U.S. states scheduled three lethal injection executions in one day. The Tennessee man was executed for killing a ...

The Kennedy Center will move forward with a two-year closure of the sprawling performing arts venue to allow for substantial renovation work, while some outdoor programming may continue. That’s ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee puts a man to death for a 1985 murder in the second of three U.S. executions set for the same day.

QUSRA, West Bank (AP) — For five nights, Israeli settlers surrounded three Palestinian homes on the outskirts of a town in the occupied West Bank, preventing the families from leaving safely as their ...

The Bakersfield Californian of today — the newspaper you hold in your hands or the stories you read online — traces its roots ...

The following people from Bakersfield and Kern County’s rich history will be portrayed at Stories on the Sidewalk.

This November, four of the seven seats on the Bakersfield City Council, Wards 1, 3, 4 and 7, are on the ballot. It is ...