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Northwest Bakersfield

North of downtown toward Oildale — Highway 99 corridor, the Kern River Parkway, and the airport edge.

Updated 2026-10-11 •auto-generated from public data

Local conditions Bakersfield metro forecast

Today
high 79° · low 52°
Weather alerts
No active alerts
Air quality (AQI)
48 · Good city-wide

The four Bakersfield zone pages share the metro forecast — the city sits in one climate zone. Alerts are county-wide (NWS); AQI is the Bakersfield monitoring area (EPA AirNow).

Incidents near Northwest Bakersfield CHP, last 7 days

  • Fatal crash Airport Dr at El Tejon Ave · Oct 4 2026 4:20PM
  • Crash, injuries unknown SR-178 westbound at Haley St · Oct 4 2026 4:28PM
  • Hit and run no injuries 3140 Pioneer Dr · Oct 4 2026 5:52PM
  • Crash with injuries (ambulance sent) 5425 Rosedale Hwy · Oct 4 2026 6:06PM
  • Hit and run no injuries 1214 Height St · Oct 4 2026 7:11AM
  • Hit and run no injuries Brentwood Dr at Pioneer Dr · Oct 4 2026 7:48AM
  • Crash, no injuries Mohawk St at Rosedale Hwy · Oct 5 2026 1:45PM

In the headlines local outlets, last 3 days

Aggregated via Google News from local outlets (Tehachapi News, KGET, 23ABC, Bakersfield.com and more) plus KGET/23ABC headline matching.

How this page is built: headlines come from Google News aggregation and outlet keyword matching; incidents and cameras by geolocation against public records (CHP, OpenStreetMap/ODbL). Matching is best-effort — see the About page for sourcing policy.