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This is basically all that’s left of an entire town that was situated just a few miles from Parker, a town with the larger population during the 1930’s. According to the BLM, this town had 5 grocery stores, 3 restaurants, pool hall, barber shop, beauty shop, mortuary, bowling alley, 3 service stations, 2 used car lots, several garages, post office, …

Members of the Bouse Ghost Riders and Parker 4-Wheelers off-road clubs have cleaned up a pile of used truck tires that had been dumped near Bouse on public lands. J.C. Sanders, President of the Bouse Ghost Riders OHV club, says he and a member of the club, Ron Riffe, identified a large pile of used truck tires that had been …

El Niño-related storms came thick and fast all week long to the entire region, and for desert communities, such prolonged rain is certainly unusual. KLPZ’s weather station faithfully recorded the rainfall all week long, and gave us a total Friday to report. The total rainfall for the week came in at 89 one-hundredths of an inch of rain, considered a …

The Parker Treasure Hunt is back for the month of January. Clues will appear on KLPZ 1380am’s morning show every day, and then on this page (below) one day later. You’re looking for an item, hidden within Parker city limits, which has Lane’s logo on it. You can bring it to Lane’s and trade it for real cash if you …

Here’s a Parker Live reader with a common question: “I’ve watched fuel prices go up and down like we all have, but over the last year it seems prices nationally have fallen everywhere but here. Even in Bullhead City, the price of fuel seems to be lower. I understand taxes play a role, but with the price at the pump …

  It has been over 15 months since Parker Strip resident Alyson Tozer’s battle with cystic fibrosis ended at 21 years old. She worked hard throughout her young life in aid of cystic fibrosis research, was an advocate of organ donation and a champion for women. She was a bright light in the community and has been greatly missed. Her …

La Paz County is to get a new government website with improved services after a decision by the Board of Supervisors. “It will actually allow us to have a website that is functional,” said County Administrator Dan Field, who added that the County’s current site (above) is the only one in the state of Arizona to earn an ‘F’ rating …

So it’s another new year and it seems like I’ve seen quite a few of them actually. Given what always happens every year I thought this might be a good starting place for 2016: “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. 

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, …

Spray-painting, boats sinking and fake skeletons: there’s no place like Parker, Arizona, and nobody covers it the way Parker Live does! Dear readers: The Parker community is huge, and includes a ton of people who come and go from our shores all year long. Most of you don’t live here on a permanent, year-round basis, but consider yourselves river people …

“Do you know when the Corps of Engineers is lowering the water level on the Parker Strip?” – Nancy I haven’t lived in Parker long enough to remember the 10-foot drawdowns that would happen annually and expose much of the riverbed to the open air. For the past number of years, the annual drawdown has been only about a foot …