Homeowners in a little community near Lamont are reeling after getting a $1,000 fee with their water bill. The small Athal Mutual Water Co. wants residents to chip in, and help replace one of the system's two wells.

One family is fighting back against the Lamont Public Utilities District, which shut off the family's water for four months. The district is charging the family $21,900 for an illegal water and sewer hook-up, even though the family did not install it.

Authorities are looking for two brothers suspected of murdering an 18-year-old man in Lamont. The Kern County Sheriff's Office released a wanted poster Monday of the suspects, 17-year-old Manuel Catalan and 20-year-old Eddie Catalan.

People in Lamont protested Monday night at a public utilities district board meeting, hoping to get some answers to what they said are questionable practices. The board, however, took no action and refused to comment much on the complaints.

A teenager was arrested for murder and authorities are looking for two other suspects after one man was killed and another was stabbed Thursday night.

A teenager was arrested for murder and authorities are looking for two other suspects after one man was killed and another was stabbed Thursday night. The 18-year-old man who died was from Brawley, a town near the Mexican border.

Something rarely seen in Lamont finally happened, the opening of new multiple-family housing units. Rancho Lindo was 10 years in the making and provides affordable housing for farm working families.

A man is dead after suffering a pair of shotgun blasts. Kern County Sheriff's deputies were called about 2 a.m. Wednesday to a home on the 5800 block of Panama Road in a rural area near Lamont. Homicide detectives are investigating the shooting.

A police pursuit Thursday exceeded 100 mph through Lamont and south Bakersfield and resulted in two men being put in jail. The suspects' truck entered the opposing lanes of traffic as a way of evading deputies, according to the sheriff's office.

The Lamont Public Utilities District is charging a family more than $10,000 for what it says are illegal water and sewer hook-ups. But the family says those hook-ups were already in place before they bought the property.

A worker at the Kentucky Fried Chicken/Taco Bell in Lamont thought a friend was playing a joke on him as he approached while the worker was locking up the store Thursday night. But, it was no joke, as the man had a gun.