Gov. Newsom signed three new oil well laws after his administration delayed enforcement of another law protecting communities ...

Oil pumpjacks line the horizon along the Kern River in Chevron’s Kern River Oil Field, the fifth largest field in the United States, located just north and east of Bakersfield, is viewed on July ...

Oildale, an unincorporated town north of Bakersfield, borders the Kern River Oil Field, one of the largest active oil fields in California. The town was founded in the early 1900s as workers ...

In the latest set of job losses to hit California's petroleum industry, an oil field services company based in Houston ...

Kern County Fire Station 66 in northwest Bakersfield welcomed its latest "Pierce Enforcer" engine, which will replace a ...

CALIF, (KERO) — Premier Resource Management is repurposing a legacy oil field into a clean and sustainable ... but it also produces more for Kern County. "We can provide jobs that bring clean ...

Depleting oil fields, like this one in Kern River Oil Field, California, are yet another sign of humans depleting the Earth's natural resources. Cattle graze amongst burning Amazon jungle in Brazil.

A wildfire breaks out on the edge of the Kern River Oil Field in Bakersfield, Calif. The oil field is the third largest oil field in California. (Citizens of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group ...

Grammy Award-winning country music artist Merle Haggard once woefully sang that he will “never swim Kern River again.” Unfortunately, for those in Bakersfield, this sentiment may be shared.

Over the last three weeks, ecologist Rae McNeish and her students have watched as a flowing river has abruptly dwindled to a dry riverbed. While conducting biological surveys along the Kern River ...

Israel’s yearlong offensive in Gaza, launched in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, has killed tens of thousands of ...

Officials in the Philippines say former President Rodrigo Duterte has registered to run for mayor of his southern home city ...