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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

Civil discourse not expected

Dear Editor, Wow! Ask a conservative to explain their beliefs, prepare yourself to be called names and have your character assassinated if they cannot give a logical answer. Take the Treaty of Tripoli for instance. The fact is, the word ‘asserting’ (as was stated by the writer of the letter “Freedom” in the Nov. 6 issue of The Standard) is not found in the text. A group of people calling themselves ‘wallbuilders’, founded by David Barton, an evangelical Christian political activist and founder of the organization ‘that promotes unorthodox theories about the religious basis of the United States’ argues –…

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Second suspect sought in BHC homicide

BULLHEAD CITY – The Bullhead City Police Department (BHCPD) is actively investigating a homicide, where one man was fatally shot and his wife was injured. Detectives are currently looking for Jonathan Arthur Wallace, 27, who is wanted for first degree murder. According to a BHCPD press release, it was reported that suspect Benjie Junior Nunez, 34, and victim Kevin Castro Hurtado, 24, had been involved in an altercation a couple of weeks ago. Nunez had reportedly arranged to meet at the Family Dollar Store parking lot in Bullhead City to physically fight on Sunday, November 17 at approximately 2 a.m….

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Nighttime pavement maintenance scheduled on State Route 95 in Lake Havasu City through Wednesday, Nov. 27

LAKE HAVASU CITY – The Arizona Department of Transportation advises motorists with travel plans on State Route 95 in Lake Havasu City his month to plan ahead and expect delays of up to 15 minutes for pavement-treatment work. Work is scheduled to occur now through Friday, Nov. 22, and from Sunday, Nov. 24, through Wednesday, Nov. 27. North- and southbound lane closures are scheduled to occur from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m., from McCulloch Boulevard South (milepost 177) to McCulloch Boulevard North (milepost 182). The restrictions are necessary so crews can place a sealant over the existing asphalt, which helps…

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No injuries in two-vehicle crash

GOLDEN VALLEY – Golden Valley Fire Battalion Chief David Martin, Captain Boyd Lewis and firefighters from Station #11, along with DPS law enforcement, responded to a two-vehicle accident at 2:50 p.m., today, at the intersection of Highway 68 and Aztec Drive. When firefighters arrived on scene, they observed one vehicle was blocking the fast lane of westbound Highway 68 and the other vehicle was blocking the eastbound lane of Highway 68. According to officials on scene, the silver four-door Nissan was traveling eastbound on Highway 68 when the white four-door Ford traveling northbound on Aztec Drive failed to stop at…

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Havasu boosts tourism with vortexes

LAKE HAVASU CITY – For years, scientific research has redefined long-held ideas about vortex energy centers and demystified them for visitors. In 2015, through a partnership with the Lake Havasu City Convention & Visitors Bureau, nine vortex energy sites were identified in and around Lake Havasu City. On Nov. 22-24, in a project designed to further identify vortex sites (also known as vortices) within Lake Havasu City, Pete A. Sanders, Jr., a scientist trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a leading expert on Sedona’s famous vortex meditation sites, will visit the city to identify additional sites and conduct…

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Public comment sought on Willow Beach Rd. project

The National Park Service is seeking public comment on an environmental assessment to evaluate the impacts of improving the existing Willow Beach Road, which provides visitors with access from U.S. Highway 93 to the Willow Beach developed area within Lake Mead National Recreation Area. This EA evaluates two alternatives for managing Willow Beach Road, describes the environment that would be impacted by the alternatives and assesses the environmental consequences of implementing the alternatives. Under the no-action alternative, the current management of Willow Beach Road would continue with no planned management changes to the road. Under the proposed action, which has…

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