This YouTube clip documents the Parker area with time-lapse, on the roads and the river, and in the desert during the BlueWater Resort & Casino Parker 425 off-road races.

Some Parker Live readers may be interested in this desert metropolis which never happened. AOL News reports on California City in 2011, the third-largest city footprint in California which never took off. Half a century ago, California City was advertised as the next great West Coast metropolis, a new retirement mecca that could rival Palm Springs. But 45 years after …

State law now requires that counties in Arizona set aside a range of properties zoned for medical marijuana dispensaries. Community Development Director Scott Bernhart addressed the Board of Supervisors yesterday at a work session on the subject, suggesting over a dozen properties which could be zoned in this way. A main concern of the Board, he said, should be to …

New writs are now before the Court in a motion filed by Yakima Company today seeking payment by La Paz County. Yakima is seeking an order requiring the County to immediately pay Yakima all funds not otherwise appropriated or necessary to fund essential government services. It would also force the County to take “all steps to raise revenue from any …

We owe $13 million to a man who’s out of patience. We have no extra money. How can we fix it? As La Paz County re-enters talks with Yakima Company after an attention-grabbing payroll crisis two weeks ago, speculation centers on what form those talks may take. Several ways to settle the County’s $13 million debt to Jim Willett have …

At a meeting on Tuesday, February 15th at 11:30 a.m, the La Paz County Board of Supervisors will hold a meeting to discuss the local adoption of Ordinance No. 2011-02, amending the La Paz County Zoning Regulations providing for non-profit Medical Marijuana Dispensaries and non-profit Medical Marijuana Dispensary Cultivation Locations, creating development standards, amending sections of the Zoning Regulations, providing …

The Honorable David G. Campbell on Monday sentenced 33-year-old Rosie Cruz Leivas of Parker to 57 months in federal prison after she pled guilty to Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. Leivas, a member of the Colorado River Indian Tribes, was the third defendant sentenced as part of an undercover operation lasting more than a year. Leivas sold methamphetamine to …

Jesse Jones in first place, Bobby Baldwin in second and Troy Herbst in third constitute the top results in the BlueWater Resort & Casino Parker 425. Read the full unofficial results here.

Yakima’s Jim Willett responded today to the County’s ‘Current Events’ statement with a single sentence: “All water under the bridge now.” – Jim Willett This could be seen as the “blank slate” some observers say is needed in the negotiations with the County.

At today’s Board of Supervisors regular meeting, a presentation by a solar power company proposed saving the County money on power costs by applying for a Power Purchase Agreement. The program would provide covered parking behind the County building which doubles as solar panels (among other installations on other County property). The power generated by the panels would be bought …