The luminous spotlight from the Kern County Sheriff’s Office’s helicopter can be easily spotted across the skyline, from the far stretches of Kern County to the heart of Bakersfield.

Despite having the equipment and staff to keep their helicopters in the sky, the Kern County Sheriff's office is being forced to dial back on usage of its helicopter fleet. The department has a ...

KERN COUNTY. (KFSN) -- Investigators are looking into the cause of a helicopter crash Thursday night in Kern County that left four people are dead. A Kern County Sheriff's Helicopter found the ...

Kern County Sheriff's Department spokesman Ray Pruitt said the crash site was found at 9:50 a.m. on Wednesday, about four hours after the helicopter vanished. Pruitt told the Bakersfield ...

The wreckage was 2½ miles from the nearest highway. Kern County sheriff's deputies secured a road leading to the site. The helicopter's cabin was fairly intact but the tail was broken off and lay ...

Kern County officials this week posted ... The video includes scenic shots and footage of deputies in a helicopter, as well as footage of Sheriff Donny Youngblood in a parade.

The DOJ said 23-year-old Brett Curtis Hair of Bakersfield pleaded guilty today to aiming the beam of a laser pointer at a Kern County Sheriff’s Office helicopter. According to court documents ...

KERN COUNTY. (KFSN) -- American Ambulance released the identities of three of the four victims in the crash as Pilot Thomas Hampl, Nurse Marco Lopez, and Paramedic Kyle Juarez. The Kern County ...

A Bakersfield man pleaded guilty Monday to aiming the beam of a laser pointer at Kern County Sheriff's Office helicopter Air 1 in September, impeding the vision of the pilot and tactical flight ...

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says the helicopter was returning to Delano Airport in Kern County when it disappeared ... missing pilot by radio. Sheriff's officials are ...

MCFARLAND, Kern County — A medical helicopter carrying a patient to a ... according to a description by sheriff’s spokesman Ray Pruitt. Two Federal Aviation Administration investigators ...