Hundreds filled the lawn at the south stage at La Paz County Park for the Parker Blues Festival, where blues bands entertained the happy crowd, classic car owners showed their shine, beer was served and vendors sold food next to the Saturday swap meet. The weather was kind too; festival goers had a temperature of around 82 degrees with partly …

A press release for the Town of Quartzsite says that, contrary to reports earlier this week on Parker Live, it did not “fire” Special Prosecutor Tom Jones for seeking to dismiss charges against former mayor Ed Foster, but reassigned the case because of a statement Jones made in an email to the Town. In his email to Chief Gilbert, Jones …

Charges against former Quartzsite mayor and candidate Ed Foster were reportedly dismissed in court this morning. The charges, which Foster has maintained were politically motivated, were being handled by a Special Prosecutor for the town, Tom Jones. Jones received the case because Town Attorney Martin Brannan stepped down from the case after Foster’s attorney moved for his disqualification. After reviewing …

A local businessman was involved in a head-on collision near Cattail Cove on Highway 95 that had traffic backed up for several hours early this morning. Parker Live spoke to his wife Terri Watts early this morning and his daughter Amy this afternoon. Gustafson is currently in hospital in Las Vegas for leg surgery. Amy says he is coherent and …

Snow on the mountains west of Parker. Via Joaquin Vences.

UPDATE: Traffic moving. 7:44am– Morning commuters between the cities of Parker and Lake Havasu have been halted for over an hour as a reported head-on collision impacts both northbound and southbound lanes of Highway 95. People stuck in the jam called KLPZ 1380am to report that the tailback is at least 5 miles in length and has the highway at …

Parker resident Shelly Rhode with the Arizona Centennial Copper Chopper, her new motorcycle, won in a raffle from the Arizona Centennial Commission.

Earlier this week we reported, on the basis of tentative election results from the town of Quartzsite, that former mayor Ed Foster had been re-elected. In fact, he may be, but we won’t know until May. As La Paz County Recorder Shelly Baker explains, “The mayor race in Quartzsite will now go to a run-off election between Ed Foster and …

As the Arizona Department of Transportation progresses on a $6.7 million project to improve an 11-mile stretch of Interstate 10 east of Quartzsite, drivers are asked to plan ahead and allow extra travel time between peak travel hours. I-10 is currently reduced to one lane in each direction daily from mileposts 52-63 as concrete repairs are completed near the Bouse …

A fox captured off of Shea Road near Parker recently tested positive for rabies. La Paz County Health Department and La Paz County Animal Control are urging residents and visitors to be wary of wild animals and to practice precautions when camping in the desert. The fox was captured Saturday, March 10th by officials in the vicinity of P Mountain …