MOHAVE COUNTY – The citizens of Mohave County can expect the following activity from Mohave County Public Works during the week of April 6: Arizona Strip: Road grading on 1) Mt. Trumbull Loop and 2) Mud Mountain Rd. in Colorado City. Kingman: Road grading on Calle Lucero. Crews will repairing pot holes and making right-of-way repairs in the Butler area. Hackberry: Road grading on Hackberry Rd. from I-40 working north. Wikieup: Road grading on Burro Creek Crossing Rd. Yucca: Road grading on 1) Chicken Springs Rd. from Alamo Rd. to Hwy. 93, 2) Alamo Rd. from Mile 30 to Mile…

PHOENIX⁠ — Governor Doug Ducey today, April 4, announced the state has secured a new agreement with Honeywell to produce over 6 million N95 masks for the state of Arizona over the next 12 months. Upon production of the masks, the Arizona Department of Health Services will deliver them to county health departments for further distribution to health, safety, and emergency response workers. The agreement follows a Monday announcement by Honeywell that it is adding manufacturing capabilities in Phoenix to produce N95 face masks in support of response efforts to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The company anticipates that the new mask production line in…

Amendments to deer, small game hunts also available for review  PHOENIX —  The Arizona Game and Fish Department’s 2020 hunt recommendations for bighorn sheep and migratory birds, as well as some 2020 deer and small-game hunts, are  available for review online at www.azgfd.gov/huntguidelines. The department annually makes recommendations to the Arizona Game and Fish Commission regarding the management of game species, which establish the seasons, dates, bag limits, open areas and permit-tag allocations based on the framework of the hunt guidelines set by the Commission.  The proposed recommendations will be presented to the Commission for consideration during its April 17 meeting….

BULLHEAD CITY – Two new stops are being added for parents who pick up and drop off instructional packets for children in the Bullhead City Elementary School District.  The new stops are on Route K, and will be at Surf & Sand and Seafair, and at Vader and Harbor.  Both are in the neighborhood west of Coyote Canyon School.  Other existing stops on the route will be pushed back about 10 to 15 minutes.  “We’ve heard from parents in the neighborhood west of Lakeside between Hancock and Marina, and we’ve listened,” said BCESD Superintendent Carolyn Stewart. “We want to make…

MOHAVE COUNTY – Mohave Community College students and employees are doing their part to help local health institutions in need of medical supplies during the Coronavirus pandemic. MCC’s Allied Health and Nursing programs have donated medical materials to assist local hospitals during the pandemic and nursing students are volunteering to help patients at hospitals in Kingman, Bullhead City, Fort Mohave and Lake Havasu City. June Weiss, MCC Director of Nursing, said students are screening staff and visitors entering the hospitals, as well as patients going into physician offices and clinics and staff entering long term care facilities. Taschia Salas, a…