This is an open thread for today only! If you have a planking picture to submit, it needs to be emailed to by midnight tonight. We’ll post your submissions below, and each valid submission (per person) will receive 11 registrations to KLPZ’s iPhone Giveaway. Below: Sherrie Irwin, Randy Hartless, Mary Hamilton, Shauna Marler, Claudia Woodhouse, Jay Clagg, Eddy Bernini, …

The Quartzsite town council voted today to remove many of the powers currently held by the town mayor and give them instead to the 7-member council. This action will be seen by many as part of an ongoing feud between the council and Mayor Ed Foster, who alleges that the council and police chief violated open meeting laws, refused his …

UPDATE: Planking photos are coming in! Add yours by emailing it to . The pics will go up on the site this Wednesday. This is me, planking. It doesn’t take a high number of neurons to be firing in one’s head, or any special skills or insight. You don’t even need to be in possession of any basic common sense. …

Current affairs in Quartzsite have been big news in recent months, and have brought with them charges of corruption, troublemaking and nepotism. On that last charge, a Parker Live reader comments: “We live in the land of political nepotism. If an employee is accused of theft, the police are all too zealous to show up and slap on the cuffs, …

A report by the Arizona Ombudsman agrees with Quartzsite Mayor Ed Foster that the town wrongfully denied his request for access to information about the town’s finances and payroll. Foster has alleged that the town blocked his access to information about where town money was going, speculating that there were more people being paid by the town than there were …

In front of a packed courtroom Monday, Judge Randolph Bartlett allowed a hearing on the Quartzsite police officer firings to continue, despite a motion from an attorney for the Town of Quartzsite questioning the legality of the proceedings. The hearing followed a temporary restraining order issued by Bartlett in recent weeks which ordered the town to reinstate two police officers …

La Paz County Health Department would like to remind residents and visitors to avoid mosquitoes when outdoors during dusk to dawn hours. “It’s that time of year again when mosquitoes are active,” said Marion Shontz, Director of the La Paz County Health Department. “Some mosquitoes carry the West Nile virus and our goal is to prevent mosquito bites in the …

Year-round, people vacation in the Parker area and upload their home videos to YouTube. Here are some recent Parker vacation videos. This is the reason many of us live here. We also, often, take it for granted. Summer in Parker

Readers, Parker Live has a very good reputation for promoting free speech in our area. Not only do we try to update the site as often as we can with news pertaining to Parker and La Paz County; we also allow one of the most open comments systems on sites such as this (most news website contributions from readers are …

The Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne has released the following statement with regard to the ongoing Quartzsite town hall dispute: “Normally, we do not release the results of an investigation until it has been completed. However, because this is a matter of unusual public interest, we are prepared to say that, based on review of a video of a July …