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Back 2 School Bash/Dance tomorrow (Friday) at Players! Free Games & Prizes & Food from 2pm-6pm. Dance for 12 years old & up is 7pm-10pm; $3 Entry Fee for dance.

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 …

Parker Live readers whose internet access is provided by Parker’s cable service will be happy to hear that the new provider Suddenlink is increasing the speeds of its service. Suddenlink services with download speeds of 756 Kilobits per second (Kbps) and 6 and 10 Megabits per second (Mbps) have been increased up to 1.5, 10 and 15 Mbps, respectively, and …

On July 16th at approximately 11:30pm, the La Paz County Sheriff’s Office responded to a single vehicle rollover occured along the levee road southwest of Comer Boulevard in Ehrenberg, AZ. 18 year old Michael Hunter of Ehrenberg was pronounced dead at the accident scene, and another occupant, 23 year old Kayla Vanderstein was transported to the Palo Verde Hopital in …

Via Nixle: TRAFFIC ACCIDENT on I-10 eastbound, west of milepost 24. Please watch for emergency vehicles. Update 5:15pm– Accident cleared up. Please drive safely.

A former La Paz County Attorney, hired by the town of Quartzsite council and now serving as its Town Attorney, has been formally reprimanded by the Arizona Supreme Court. Martin Brannan’s reprimand stems from an incident that occurred while he was serving as Chief Deputy Apache County Attorney several months ago: [Brannan and Whiting,]… in their capacity as county attorney …

Officials with local cable company Suddenlink said today that customers will be seeing re-branded buildings and vehicles and employees wearing new apparel when they get new Suddenlink green and blue colors,  beginning this weekend. Suddenlink acquired NPG April 1. To celebrate the official transition, the Suddenlink customer care office in Parker at 1620 California Avenue will host an open house …

When disasters stretch from days into weeks, local resources are quickly depleted and emergency responders can no longer holdup under the demanding strain of protecting life, property and environment. This is exactly what happened when the Wallow Fire in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest area grew into the largest fire in Arizona’s history. On June 14th, the Apache County Emergency Operation …

La Paz County Attorney Press Release On July 13, 2011, a La Paz County jury convicted Refugio Ibarra Jr., 23, of Parker, on two counts of Aggravated Assault and two counts of Endangerment. The case was heard in La Paz County Superior Court with Judge Michael Burke presiding. Ibarra faces a mandatory prison sentence of 5 to 36 years in …

The Arizona Independent is reporting that the Chief of Police in Quartzsite is asking the Council to declare a State of Emergency due to the publicity the town has been receiving after the arrest of Jennifer ‘Jade’ Jones at a public meeting: Quartzsite Police Chief Jeff Gilbert has asked the town council to declare a “state of emergency” due to …