[ AWC Teacher of the Year Steve Lund, Yesenia Melendez and President Glenn Mayle ] An Arizona Western College student from Parker, Yesenia Melendez, has been named recipient of the Steven P. Lund Presidential Teacher of the Year Scholarship by Steve Lund, who was her English as a Second Language professor during the Fall 2011 semester. Although it was her …

[Photo: Jessica Testa, Cronkite News Online ] The Quechen Tribes are opposing the Quartzsite Solar Energy Project on La Posa Plain, according to this article from Cronkite News, making it one of many projects that various tribes (including CRIT) are taking issue with. The article reports: Like all environmental impact statements, the document for the Quartzite project includes reports of cultural …

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Canadian entrepreneur and former Edmonton Oilers owner Peter Pocklington has written Parker Live to “emphatically deny” the allegations we reported a few days ago were filed with the Arizona Corporation Commission against him. Pocklington, who resides in Palm Desert, CA, says he is “stunned” that officials are questioning his La Paz County mine’s gold potential: “The geologists who conducted and …

A Celebration of Life in honor of Taylor Michael Thomas, the Parker teen who was fatally wounded in a collision with a car while riding a scooter last week, is scheduled for Friday. The memorial will take place at Pop Harvey Park, named after Taylor’s great-grandfather Pop Harvey, who was instrumental in starting the Red Cross Swim Program in Parker …

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A study by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation says that, despite 20 years of improvements in health care and rising life expectancy elsewhere, males born in La Paz County in 2009 have a shorter average life expectancy than those born in 1989. In 1989, La Paz County had the best life expectancy in any surrounding …

The former owner of the Edmonton Oilers has been accused of securities fraud in relation to a gold mine in La Paz County. Peter Pocklington, who famously ‘sold’ Wayne Gretzky to Los Angeles, is alleged to have misrepresented the amount of recoverable gold in the mine while raising more than $4.8 million from at least 116 investors between July 2010 and …

News outlets nationally are continuing to cover a Quartzsite school after students caught their principal and an administrative assistant on camera kissing in the empty classroom next door and posted it to YouTube. Both were fired after the incident and are reportedly both married to other people. Outlets that have covered the scandal now include MSNBC, The Huffington Post and even …

[ Taylor Thomas, pictured with a friend ] Shortly after news that local 17 year old Taylor Thomas had been fatally injured Tuesday night, the teen’s friends took to his Facebook page to remember him. Some of his friends and family are gathering at the scene of the accident today at 3:30pm to sign a memorial. The News-Herald reports today …