La Paz County Health Department would like to remind residents and visitors to avoid mosquitoes when outdoors during dusk to dawn hours. “It’s that time of year again when mosquitoes are active,” said Marion Shontz, Director of the La Paz County Health Department. “Some mosquitoes carry the West Nile virus and our goal is to prevent mosquito bites in the …

Year-round, people vacation in the Parker area and upload their home videos to YouTube. Here are some recent Parker vacation videos. This is the reason many of us live here. We also, often, take it for granted. Summer in Parker

Readers, Parker Live has a very good reputation for promoting free speech in our area. Not only do we try to update the site as often as we can with news pertaining to Parker and La Paz County; we also allow one of the most open comments systems on sites such as this (most news website contributions from readers are …

The Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne has released the following statement with regard to the ongoing Quartzsite town hall dispute: “Normally, we do not release the results of an investigation until it has been completed. However, because this is a matter of unusual public interest, we are prepared to say that, based on review of a video of a July …

The Arizona Department of Transportation will be working on minor roadway repairs at various locations along State Route 72 between Bouse and Vicksburg beginning Tuesday (August 2) through Friday (August 5). The work is scheduled to take place between the hours of 6 a.m. and 7 p.m. each day. Drivers should expect delays as workers direct alternating traffic through the …

La Paz County Administrator Dan Field stopped by KLPZ studios this morning with Assessor George Nault and Recorder Shelly Baker to talk about the latest in regards to settling the County’s debt to Yakima Company. Watch here.

A public hearing will be conducted by the Board of Supervisors of La Paz County, Arizona at a meeting of the Board on Thursday, August 25, 2011, which begins at 10:00 a.m. (or as soon thereafter as can be accommodated by the Board’s agenda) in the Board’s Meeting Room, located at 1108 Joshua Avenue, Parker, Arizona, on a proposal for …

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In recent weeks, 18 abandoned open and dangerous mine shafts on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) public lands were closed in the town of Quartzsite. Bat gates and cupolas were installed over the shafts which close access to humans but allow ingress/egress to bat populations. Quartzsite is usually a small town, but during the winter months it grows thousands of …