Robert Price

Bakersfield’s Liberty Bell, the scene of many speeches, prayers, pleas and protests, has been here exactly 50 years. It’s the closest thing Bakersfield has to a town square.

BAKERSFIELD, Calf. (KGET) — 37-year-old Justin Miller thought he had a sinus infection. A bad, persistent sinus infection. Turned out it was significantly more concerning, a rare and deadly …

If you’re expecting a big Fourth of July celebration in Bakersfield a week from Saturday, you might want to rethink that.

The building at the northeast corner of 17th and O streets has been a church for 99 years. Now, after three or four incarnations over the past century, the place we now know as the River Church is looking for a new home. The building is about to be leveled.

Two hundred fifty years, a quarter millennium: A noteworthy achievement under any circumstances. But how does the semiquincentennial celebration compare with our excitement level in 1976? We asked …

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – A Bakersfield Independence Day tradition continued Saturday morning as America celebrated 250 years. It was the Westchester Fourth of July Parade, minus the parade as w…

OILDALE, Calif. (KGET) — A running gun battle on the streets of Oildale in the wee hours of Sunday morning sent four to the hospital, including a child. Thankfully, no fatalities were reported in w…

It might have looked like the line for a major concert event, or for a really big game, but the queue on a Bakersfield residential street Wednesday morning was neither. It was the line for perhaps …

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Tragedy struck in Bakersfield’s historic Alta Vista neighborhood where seven pets were killed in a house fire likely started by an unknown neighbor’s illega…

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — They've been spreading good will around Kern County for decades, and now the international nonprofit that uses that term as its corporate title is about to make it an even dozen stores.