Bakersfield hit 102° Thursday afternoon, but is expected to cool down to the lower 60s by Friday morning. Cooler weather ...

The air in Kern County is going to be a bit stagnant for the next few days, affecting our air quality. There’s a high-pressure area up north and a low-pressure area down south, creating dry ...

Bakersfield is in the middle of about three weeks of moderate to unhealthy air quality, and it's recently become so bad that you can see it. Despite the visibly bad air, people were out and about ...

Bakersfield and several Central Valley communities are fighting the bowl-shaped topography, hemmed in by mountain ranges. Drought and high temperatures have made the air even more stagnant in ...

From 2019 to 2020, Bakersfield experienced the worst drop in air quality of all similarly sized cities, according to a report released by air filter producer Filterbuy. The report highlighted the ...

No other monitor showed a problem in the 25,000-square-mile Valley from Stockton to Bakersfield. The air was healthy everywhere except Clovis, yet the entire Valley was marked down for an ozone ...

You point your car north, as you head home to Bakersfield. Cresting the Tejon Pass on Interstate 5, you look down onto the valley. Shrouded in a brown cloud of polluted air is Bakersfield.