Bakersfield residents aim to revive the dry Kern River, facing opposition from agricultural interests in a high-stakes legal ...

For decades, residents of Bakersfield have lived with a river that’s little more than a channel of dust. The Kern, which pours from the snowy peaks of the southern Sierra, descends upon California’s ...

Kern River water is allocated to diverters based on a ... The trial court did not set a river flow rate to meet that objective, but instead required the plaintiffs and Bakersfield to negotiate ...

Riverside Park in Kernville reopened this weekend, two years after being virtually destroyed by floodwaters during the historic 2023 water year. The restoration of the park, built alongside the upper ...

But the water flows ordered by California officials also ... officials have opened a relief valve known as the Kern River Intertie that diverts floodwaters to be used as drinking water in Southern ...

Monte Smith of Gold Country Sport Fishing reported continued solid trolling for both king salmon and rainbow trout. Friday’s ...

Delta bass, stripers and sturgeon hitting, Alan Fong said. Don Pedro king salmon and trout active, Monte Smith reported.

The upper Kern River have dropped from 2025 to 1763 cfs at Kernville while water releases out of the ... feet in elevation and 76% of capacity. The flows in the San Joaquin River at Friant have ...

When the Kern River ran “chronically dry,” environmental groups ... City of Bakersfield were violating a state law that requires entities controlling the flow of water to release enough for fish.