U.S. energy firms this week added oil and natural gas rigs for a second week in a row for the first time since July 2024, ...

Credit: California Highway Patrol photo A 53-year-old man from Bakersfield died when the big rig he was driving went off Highway 101 south of Orcutt. The crash occurred at 2:30 p.m. Thursday on ...

The name of the big-rig driver killed in a crash last week on Highway 101 between Orcutt and Los Alamos has been released. David Gutierrez Hernandez 54, of Bakersfield died in the crash ...

BAKERSFIELD, CA (March 31, 2022) – Tuesday morning, a big-rig crash on Highway 99 took the life of 77-year-old Seluster Lane. The accident happened around 4:44 a.m., on the southbound lanes of ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — With President Trump declaring a 'National Energy Emergency' in his inaugural address, what does that mean for those invested in Kern County's oil and gas industry?

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.— Environmental and community groups joined ... open more than a million acres of public land and mineral estate in central California to oil drilling and fracking. The rallies will ...