After several months of broadcasting at reduced power on a temporary transmitter, KLPZ 1380am in Parker went live this morning with its new signal. The transmitter is the beating heart of a radio station’s infrastructure, and is the core of the operation. KLPZ’s old one was destroyed by an electrical surged caused by lightning during a severe thunderstorm back in …
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UPDATE: School budget override passes in unofficial results, with 56% of voters saying Yes, and 44% of voters saying No. Provisional and late ‘early’ ballots still to be counted. On Tuesday, November 3rd, voters will head to the ballot box in one of the simplest elections they will participate in, with the Parker Unified School District (PUSD) budget override on …
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A Ukrainian man who spent a year in Parker, AZ when he was a teenager in 1993 has returned for a visit, telling Parker Rotary Club about his life since. Taras Dasho came to America as a Rotary exchange student during the 1993/1994 school year when he was 15 years old. He lived with four host families while attending Parker …
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UPDATE: Martin Sholl admits to taking the skeletons in the comments section below. He says he did it because he was the person who first spotted them in May, and was never mentioned by name in the international news that followed. He blames Lt. Bagby for this, and Parker Live (despite never contacting us a single time). Sour grapes, it …
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As the weather cools off, Parker is building, with many public works and construction projects getting started, underway or completed for improvements to infrastructure and services in the area. The Arizona Department of Transportation is the latest to announce the start of a new project: a sidewalk improvement plan on nearly a mile of sidewalk between Kofa Avenue near the …
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The light show began at sunset, and continued once every second for hours. Photos via Parker Live and Michael Collins.
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The last time skeletal remains were discovered in La Paz County, they turned out to be fake. But this time, the find was no laughing matter, with Quartzsite police making moves to notify next of kin after finding identification near the remains. In the morning hours of Thursday, October 15th, Quartzsite Police Department (QPD) received a call from the Arizona …
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A Parker man has been convicted of Aggravated DUI after a jury trial at La Paz County Superior Court last week. Rick Malin, 67, was arrested in July 2014 for driving under the influence of alcohol by La Paz County Sheriff’s Deputy Roger Rosado in the Lakeside 5 area north of Parker. Malin challenged the traffic stop, arguing in court …
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An estimated 175 people representing all of La Paz County, including Bouse, Ehrenberg, McMullen Valley, Quartzsite and elsewhere, came together this week to launch a community development program at BlueWater Resort & Casino. “In late 2011 some of the leaders in our community got together,” said Mary Hamilton, Parker Area Chamber of Commerce Director. “They went to APS and got …
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Ahead of Red Ribbon Week, the Parker area had a visit from Mika Camarena, the widow of Kiki Camarena, a DEA agent who was killed by a drug cartel while he was working undercover in Guadalajara, Mexico. Camarena had been instrumental in the destruction of a massive marijuana crop owned by the cartel and intended for sale in the United …
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