Rick Allen was on the C-130 plane with his fellow Marines, getting ready to fly to Vietnam, when the plane was abruptly shut ...

Potential rain and a slew of activities taking place in Washington DC during Flag Day weekend did nothing to dampen the ...

Former Kern County Fire chief Bob Lechtreck, perhaps the last link to the Kern County Fire Department’s golden age, has died.

Steve Miles, with Honor Flight Kern County, joined 17 News at Noon to talk about the weekend event. Miles has $35,000 worth of items to raffle off and says if they don’t fundraise, they don’t fly.

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12-year-old Tessa Ziegler and eight-year-old Raya Ziegler raised more than $30,000 to help the Honor Flight Network, which flies veterans to Washington, D.C., where they visit memorials that honor ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Veterans onboard the 50th Kern County Honor Flight returned to Meadows Field Airport Thursday evening, after a whirlwind trip to our nation’s capitol. Patriotism was on ...

Honor Flight Kern County has grown in the past decade. It also has evolved and become better organized since that first flight in 2012, and now flies planeloads of military veterans to the U.S ...

The first time The Californian sent this reporter to Washington, D.C. for a three-day assignment covering Honor Flight Kern County, there were only about 20 World War II veterans, plus ...

We've heard about Honor Flight, which takes veterans to Washington D.C. to visit war memorials, but not everyone can make that trip. Next month, the first-ever Kern County Honor Bus will take ...