KGET 17 News

Top stories: A male subject was found in a field with a self-inflicted gunshot wound after firing at passing vehicles on Stockdale Highway on Thursday, according to the Kern County Sheriff’s Office. Eight weeks after Election Day and the highly contested race of the 16th State Senate District is taking another turn. The Incumbent, Melissa Hurtado, is requesting a recount of Kern ballots. A man who...

Top Stories - Powerful winds slam our state, knocking down power ligns up north and causing this dangerous light show - There's still no house speaker after Bakersfield congressman kevin mccarthy failed to secure enough votes for a second day in a row

Top Stories - The bay area and other parts of northern California are bracing for the impact of another, potentially more powerful, storm - The first Sierra snow survey of the season is in the books - Buffalo bill's player Damar Hamlin remains in critical condition after collapsing on the field during monday night's game

Top stories: One man is dead after a shooting involving Kern County Sheriff’s Office deputies, Ridgecrest police officers and a suicidal man armed with a firearm, according to a release from KCSO. Kern County’s Homicide rate rose to an all time high throughout the pandemic but things have changed for 2022.

Top Stories - As we brace for another round of rain up and down the state, some areas up north are still drying out from the last storm system - Kern County's Homicide rate rose to an all time high throughout the pandemic but things changed in 2022

Top Stories - The final storm of 2022 was a wild one across California - Hundreds of thousands of people will line the streets of Pasadena as the 1 hundred and 34th Rose Parade ushers in the new year this morning

Top Stories - We continue to follow developments out of the Southland after a Riverside Sheriff's Deputy was shot and killed in the line of duty yesterday - A look at the avalanche of new laws about to hit Californians - Brazilian soccer star Pele has died

Top stories: A Kern County judge on Thursday gave a tentative ruling finding the state should pay attorney’s fees for Tastries Bakery owner Cathy Miller, but a final decision won’t be made until the matter is argued in late February. Two men are in custody after police discovered an alleged illegal chop shop based in a condemned residence in south Bakersfield, according to a release from the depar...

Top Stories - The recounting of ballots in the 16th State Senate District race continues - The Kern County Sheriff's Department has lost one of its best

Top stories: The Kern County coroner’s office has released the names of the men involved in the fatal Christmas Eve shooting on Snowdon Avenue. After spending years in a state mental hospital, a man accused of shooting at deputies during a 2018 standoff has been found competent and criminal charges were reinstated against him.

Top Stories - Pope Benedict is reportedly very ill and his condition has rapidly worsened - We are learning more about the deadly shooting on Christmas Eve in an upscale Southwest Bakersfield neighborhood - One person was gravely injured in a car crash in Southeast Bakersfield last night

Top Stories - We're learning more about the two men who killed each other on Christmas Eve - New details on what led up to a deadly shooting between a Ridgecrest woman and her boyfriend earlier this month - The Coroner is working to identify the man killed in a crash in Northwest Bakersfield early yesterday morning

Top stories: At least one person has died after a two-vehicle crash Monday morning on Coffee Road, according to the Bakersfield Police Department. One person was found dead and another suffered smoke inhalation at a mobile home fire Saturday evening, according to Kern County Fire Department. Police on Saturday said they were investigating the deaths of two people at a home in southwest Bakersfield...

Top Stories - Fire crews are still investigating a deadly Christmas Eve fire at a mobile home park in East Bakersfield - Two people were killed in a Christmas Eve shooting in an upscale Southwest Bakersfield neighborhood - As we round out 2022, another reminder of how the deadly effects of fentanyl in our community as the number of overdoses spikes

Top stories: We may be over a month past the 2022 midterm election, but in the Central Valley, the vote counting is still underway. The California Highway Patrol will be at maximum enforcement this holiday weekend.

Top Stories - Recapping our top stories on this Friday morning, and today is expected to be one of the busiest travel days of the year - The parents of two kids killed by an alleged impaired driver are suing the Greenfield Union School District - Disgraced Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer can play baseball next season after he was suspended for alleged sexual assault

Top stories: The parents of a man and girl killed by an alleged impaired driver are suing Greenfield Union School District, alleging the area where the two were standing when hit was used as a bus stop despite being located “on a high-speed, heavily-traveled roadway.” The California Living Museum announced an expansion of its animal care facilities, including the addition of what’s being called th...

Top Stories - Last night, family and friends of Orrin and Orson West gathered on the anniversary of the date they were reported missing - This morning the California Department of Justice is investigating an officer-involved shooting that happened in southeast Bakersfield this week - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made his first-known trip outside of Ukraine since Russia invaded the count...

Top Stories: A toddler strapped in his car seat was ejected from a vehicle after a head-on crash on Highway 65 late Tuesday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol. The California Highway Patrol released an update Tuesday about a dead woman found on the Highway 99 off-ramp on Dec. 17. Two years have passed since the community was rocked by the disappearance of two young boys in Calif...

Top Stories - We're learning more about that powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake up north that is now blamed for at least two deaths - It has been two years since a pair of brothers were reported missing in California City in what has now become a murder mystery - Eight Bakersfield Police officers are on administrative leave after an officer involved shooting that left a man dead in southeast Bakers...

Top stories: A Kern County Sheriff’s Office deputy was responding to a call for a failure to yield when the patrol cruiser collided with a truck in east Bakersfield, according to KCSO. Two suspected drunken drivers were arrested during a California Highway Patrol checkpoint held Friday in northwest Bakersfield. The Kern County Sheriff’s Office arrested nine suspects on suspicion of human trafficki...

Top Stories - The January 6th committee held its final public meeting yesterday, and in an historic move the bi-partisan panel voted unanimously to recommend to the department of justice criminal charges against former President Donald Trump and others - Bakersfield Police are asking for help identifying a man who allegedly forced a woman into his car at gunpoint then sexually assaulted her - A Ke...

Top stories: An investigation is underway after a body was discovered on a Highway 99 offramp early Saturday morning. One woman has died after being struck by a vehicle Friday afternoon near Weldon, Calif.

Top Stories - NBC News has learned exclusively that the Jan. 6 committee plans to issue at least three criminal referrals for former President Donald Trump today - Officials in Texas are declaring a state of emergency as they brace for the number of migrant crossings to more than double, if a controversial Trump-era policy is lifted this week

Top stories: Faculty and community members came together at a college board meeting this week, claiming students of color are being targeted at Bakersfield College by an on-campus group. Heidi Jeremiah arrived at court Friday morning prepared to plead no contest to a manslaughter charge and receive a two-year prison term for an alleged drunken driving crash that killed a 17-year-old Wofford Height...