Kern County

A California county that pumps most of the state’s oil and has issued more than 1,000 drilling permits in five years violated state environmental laws, an appeals court ruled Tuesday in a victory for environmentalists who argued the permit system threatened the region’s air and water. The 5th District Court of Appeal gave Kern County 30 days to stop issuing…

PG&E officials announced Saturday that all power has been restored to customers affected by the power safety shutoffs. According to the utility, the last group of customers without power were in Amador and Calaveras counties and were restored around 6 p.m.

You may recall that after a major Fourth of July earthquake, and subsequent temblors in the following days, that many criticized the ShakeAlertLA app for not notifying residents that a large one was coming.

A Kern County man was sentenced last week to 94-years-to-life in prison for sexually abusing a child, according to Contra Costa County prosecutors. Donaciano Rodriguez was found guilty on 11 felony counts, including penetration of a child under 10 and forced lewd acts on a child.

A Central California man who ripped out the eyeball of another man has been convicted of mayhem and other charges that carry a possible life sentence.

A former Charles Manson pen pal wants a Los Angeles judge to order DNA testing of a 43-year-old Florida man who contends he is Manson’s grandson, saying the weight of evidence disputes the claim of the cult leader’s alleged kin.

President Donald Trump Monday approved a request to declare an emergency in California and ordered federal assistance to supplement state, tribal, and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from the earthquakes that began in the Ridgecrest area Thursday.

Following the two latest earthquakes that rattled Southern California residents, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a state of emergency in San Bernardino County Saturday morning.

President Donald Trump Monday approved a request to declare an emergency in California and ordered federal assistance to supplement state, tribal, and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from the earthquakes that began in the Ridgecrest area Thursday.

Following the two latest earthquakes that rattled Southern California residents, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a state of emergency in San Bernardino County Saturday morning.

A law recently passed in Oakland makes it one of several cities that will require property owners to retrofit all soft-story buildings in order to make them safer in the event of an earthquake.

Oakland is requiring 2,000 soft-story buildings to be retrofitted in the next four to six years. Melissa Colorado reports.

Back in 1991, Vicente Benevides was wrongly convicted of raping and killing a toddler, and after decades of anguish in prison, he’s finally free, and is filing a lawsuit.

Slopes of the Sierra Nevada sported fresh powder Thursday as a late-spring storm with a winter-like potency moved through California, adding to snowpack and rainfall accumulations that were already well above normal.

A storm will bring heavy rain and lightning to the region. Meteorologist Kari Hall has the details in the Microclimate Forecast.

A gunman in Southern California on Wednesday fatally shot his ex-wife and a man at a trucking company before a nearly 40-minute rampage in which he chased after another man, killing him, and then drove to a home where he shot dead a father and daughter.

A gunman went on a rampage in Kern County, California, killing his wife and four other people before shooting himself to death, authorities said.

A gunman killed five people, including his wife, before turning the gun on himself as a Kern County sheriff’s deputy closed in Wednesday, authorities said.

The Kern County Sheriff’s Office says a bag containing a human arm was found in the Kern River.