Felipe Torres, owner of Big Shoe Repair on Chester Avenue in Bakersfield, says he hopes the city will use its recent $10 million dollar USDOT grant to install features to discourage reckless driving.

UPDATE: Chester Ave from Truxtun is back open. BPD received a call of shots fired around 2:30 a.m. on Chester Avenue in downtown Bakersfield. The armed man is now dead after BPD returned fire to his ...

BAKERSFIELD, CA (August 2, 2023) – Tuesday night, a pedestrian crash on Chester Avenue left a rider and another person hospitalized. Police responded to the incident on July 18th, at around 10:57 p.m.

Chester Avenue will be closed between 23rd Street and Truxtun Avenue for nine hours Saturday and again Sunday to accommodate a special event, the city of Bakersfield announced Thursday. It said the ...