Cate in Bouse writes:
Wrecked the Jeep on Hwy 72 six miles north of Bouse in a sudden snowstorm Sunday at 5pm. Took several minutes for somebody to stop and ask if I was okay. Others barreled full speed through the fast-running wash. Please slow down when it rains — or snows — in Arizona.
We’ve had extremely unusual [...]

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Call me paranoid, but a recently leaked Department of Interior (DOI) memo recommends that President Obama look at restricting access to some public lands west of Phoenix by declaring them as National Monuments. National Monument designations can be made by the President without input from Congress or other stakeholders.
Among the sites being offered up to [...]

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This is the text of a statement sent to Parker Live by Jim Willett, owner of Yakima Company with which La Paz County has been in legal dispute for some time. We will seek comment from La Paz County in response and post anything we receive.
“It was recently reported that settlement negotiations between the County [...]

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Dennis asks:
Can’t find a location for rainfall year-to-date. Paper said you might keep it?
Rainfall recorded in Parker at KLPZ’s National Weather Service Station is 2.16 inches so far. Compare this to our annual average of 4.6 inches per year, and it’s clear we had an extremely unusual first month of 2010 weather-wise. Climate change? Or [...]

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Piranha 3D, the upcoming epic thriller/horror movie, is due to hit theaters in August this year. The flick, filmed on location on Lake Havasu, features people getting eaten alive by thousands of deadly piranha fish.
Originally the film’s release date was to be June 2010, near the beginning of the annual tourist season here on the [...]

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From Off-Road.Com:
Talk is buzzing with excitement about the upcoming Blue Water Resort & Casino “PARKER 425”, February 4th thru 7th. Since 2003, the “PARKER 425” has been the opening round for Best In The Desert’s car and truck classes. This race has a great and storied history of large fields and as “The Legend Lives [...]

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Governor Brewer has announced her plan to balance the budget and she is counting on you to help. Several of the provisions on the plan will require voter approval.
Governor Brewer is counting on cutting spending by $1 billion dollars by asking the voters to overturn Proposition 204, which was passed in 2000. Prop [...]

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So, how about it, Losties? Next week will herald the beginning of the end of six years of mystery on the ABC TV show Lost, which will finish with an intense, two-hour season finale sometime in May this year. The finale is expected to answer some of the show’s questions, most of which have been [...]

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From the email:
Any word on Schools closing tomorrow? I have heard that it was to be announced on KLPZ and I figure here as well. I kind of need to know since I can’t log on to my school email. Thanks.
So far, no word from anybody at the school districts. I suspect, unless someone posts [...]

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Mr. Patrick Jones has been hired as the new District Manager. There were three applicants and three out of the five Board members felt Mr. Jones was the most qualified. Mr. Svider is the new Chairperson. They both have a great deal of time to expend on dealing with the various issues of the district [...]

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I wanted to share this with everyone. This is the most recent information available regarding the visitation numbers to Arizona State Parks. Our own Buckskin Mountain State Park has the best (percentages) numbers in the State Parks System, showing an increase from last year in both categories:  Year-to-Date 2008/2009 (+7.1%) and an increase from November 2008 and November 2009 [...]

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by Lyle Browning, Instructional Specialist, Sr. at La Paz County Coop Extension, University of Arizona.
Poor Haiti. It seems everything that can go wrong there does.
The United States has a very special relationship with Haiti. If not for the people of Haiti, we may today be speaking French instead of English. What we know today as [...]

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Early last year, Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett gave a presentation on the Arizona budget deficit which has relevance to the current situation, in which the state’s finances are worse than ever and commentators are saying “nothing seems to have changed.”
This morning, La Paz County Assessor George Nault and County Administrator Dan Field appear [...]

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So, a new year arrives. A hundred years ago, people said that the year was “Nineteen-oh-nine” and going into “Nineteen-ten”. But we seem to have adopted widespread use of “Two-thousand and nine”, so how will we describe the date in the coming year 2010? (And how does it read in your mind when you see [...]

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So far, it looks like Parker Live readers are split on how they feel about the underage drinking arrests of 19 young people from the Parker area at the weekend. About 57 percent of respondents agreed with the statement, ‘The law is the law, and it was broken.’ The other 43 percent of respondents agreed [...]

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