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Letter to the Editor
The fallacy in cherry picking

Dear Editor, During the recent Trump administration’s U.S.

fire extinguisher
Safe evacuation in Lake Havasu City garage fire

LAKE HAVASU CITY – At approximately 11:30 p.m.

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Rhythm & Brews festival returns for third year

KINGMAN — The Kingman Area Chamber of Commerce

Nancy Griffith Terhaar

March 12, 1948 – May 29, 2026 Nancy,

Volunteers help expand innovative Colorado River Fish Habitat

BULLHEAD CITY — Twenty volunteers from Bullhead City

arrested in handcuffs
Scam artists apprehended in Starbucks parking lot

KINGMAN – An alleged scam artist was arrested

Thank you for reading The Standard newspaper online!

Pam Wanner

County road work continues

The citizens of Mohave County can expect the following road maintenance activity during the week of June 29: Arizona Strip: Road grading on Mud Mountain Rd. Kingman: Road grading on 1) Topeka St.and 2) Pate Rd.Crews will be crack sealing Sundown Rd. and Sierra Vista Ave.They will be repairing the right of way, repairing pot holes and clearing drivers’ line of sight in the Butlerarea. Hackberry: Road grading on Antares Rd. Yucca: Road grading on 1) Alamo Rd. from Mile 15 to Mile 25, 2) Alamo Rd. from Mile 40 to Mile 52, 3) Butch Cassidy Rd. and 4) Santa…

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Make Sex a Priority

COVID-19, national tensions, unemployment and a strained lifestyle change have been tough.       One of the best things couples around the world can do right now is turn off your phones and televisions and have sex.  Couples more than ever need to refocus on sexual intimacy. The news makes us feel bad. Politics makes us feel bad. Religious issues drain us. National tensions are draining us. Unemployment, money problems, family worries and more beat us down. You’ll feel better if you have sex. Your relationship will be better if you have sex.  Before you were married, you could hardly wait to…

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Thunder-Rode response to Mayor Jen Miles interview with Travis Rains

Dear Mayor Miles: Thank you for your kind words in the article that was written and in which Mr. Travis Rains apparently quoted you. I sent him a nice email congratulating him on a nice job with his piece. I was sorry to note that you found some of my comments to be inflammatory and that you were disturbed. Certainly not my intention – far from it. I don’t know how else one could describe these people that want to destroy our country, tear down our monuments and relics, change our history and to incite and invite hatred within our…

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Hiker Fatality on South Kaibab Trail in Grand Canyon National Park

Grand Canyon, AZ-  On June 24 at approximately 5:36 p.m., the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a call reporting a fatality approximately half a mile above the Tip Off resthouse on the South Kaibab Trail. CPR was initiated and National Park Service personnel responded from the South Rim via helicopter. The victim, Catherine Houe, 49, of Daly City, California was hiking into the canyon to spend the night at Phantom Ranch. After hiking four miles down the South Kaibab Trail she became dizzy, disoriented, and then stopped breathing, according to her husband and a friend. The cause of death is…

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Kino Avenue waterline project lane closures

KINGMAN –The closure will begin Tuesday, June 30 at 7:00 a.m. through July 1 at 5:00 p.m. The street closure will be on Kino Avenue at Willow Road and extend to North Glen Rd. Detours will be in place for street closures. The project to install a new water transmission main on Kino Ave., between the Mohave Wash and Stockton Hill Road began February 10. The contractor, Freiday Construction, is working with residents in the area regarding notification, but no water service delays or disruptions are scheduled to take place. This project is the continuation of a multi-phased project to…

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COVID-19 update: 45 new cases, two deaths

MOHAVE COUNTY – Late Thursday afternoon, the Mohave County Health Department (MCDPH) Nursing staff was notified of 45 new COVID-19 confirmed cases. Twenty-four of the cases are in the Bullhead City service area. Twenty are in the Lake Havasu City area. One case is in the Kingman area. There are two new deaths reported, both from previous cases.  One is a 60-69 year age range person in the Bullhead City area and one is 80-89 in the Lake Havasu City area. Of the 24 Bullhead area cases, 8 are recovering at home and are inked to another case. One is…

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