A new podiatrist has started seeing patients in Parker. Dr. Adam Caton, DPM is board-certified by the American Board of Podiatric Medicine, and began at Parker Podiatry on Monday. Dr. Caton was born and raised in Arizona and came to Parker from the East Valley. When asked about moving to a more rural setting he said, “I’m looking forward to …

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is accepting public comment regarding a proposed hazardous waste management permit for the Evoqua Water Technologies facility near Shea Road in Parker. Evoqua, formerly Siemens, formerly U.S. Filter/Westates, is a carbon regeneration facility that takes used commercial carbon filters and burns off the contaminants that have accumulated in the carbon, purifying the filters and …

UPDATE 11/9: Satzman has been sentenced to 12 years in prison with credit for 716 days served in the La Paz County Detention Facility. Aggravating factors outweighed mitigating factors for a moderately aggravated sentence. A La Paz County jury has convicted Stacy Lee Satzman of having his friend set fire to the Betty Hunter Realty office in Bouse, AZ two …

UPDATE: This question has been definitively answered! CLICK HERE for the full story. — Original article: Parker Live received this email recently: “Every time we come to Parker, we pass the river bridge where it says ‘KEN TUFF – RIVER RATZ on the concrete. How long has it been there and who is Ken Tuff? Do you guys know?” What …

UPDATED 9/27 to add County Attorney’s comments La Paz County Sheriff John Drum issued a statement Friday alleging misconduct by the County Attorney’s Office during the Ackerman murder case, an allegation that Chief Deputy County Attorney Karen Hobbs described as “dirty politics”. According to the statement, Drum submitted an ethics complaint with the Arizona State Bar against Hobbs and her …

Photo: Anthony N. A semi burned on Highway 72 south of Bouse Sunday evening. Occupants got out safely according to eyewitnesses, and no other vehicles were involved. The Sheriff’s Office, Department of Public Safety and Bouse Fire Department were on scene. The highway was closed for a short time before reopening.

A forklift inadvertently dragged down a power pole around 11:57am on Friday, putting KLPZ radio off the air and leaving an outage between 6th and 18th Streets. A transformer caught fire, according to Parker Police Department. Power is now restored in at least some of the area.

The Bullhead City Council has voted to end the annual ‘River Regatta’, the annual event that had more than 30,000 people floating the Colorado River 70 miles north of Parker, AZ every August. After this year’s event, social media was filled with photographs showing heaping mounds of trash and debris left in the river and washing up on shores as …

The La Paz County Veterans Court celebrated its first graduate Tuesday. David Munden, a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard, successfully completed the court’s requirements over the course of 9 months and was free of any further obligations as of Tuesday’s graduation ceremony. Proceedings began when the American Legion posted colors in the Justice of the Peace Court in Parker. …

Le Pera Elementary School is closed Monday and Tuesday after receiving an E. coli notice and boil advisory from the Colorado River Indian Tribes. CRIT Water Utilities informed school officials late Friday that a routine sample taken from a water tower at the school had tested positive for E. coli. A water line from the tower was re-routed, and multiple …