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

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

The bios of the veterans who took part in Honor Flight 62 on Saturday are listed below. They were read off prior to their ...

Kuhlman welcomed her husband with open arms after his long day in Washington, D.C., with green balloons and a poster with ...

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 ...