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Night work scheduled on Airway Avenue for utility

KINGMAN – The City of Kingman is notifying

Mohave Electric announces classroom grant winners

BULLHEAD CITY – Mohave Electric Cooperative (MEC) awarded eighteen

Full closure of Airway Ave, Flying Fortress Pkwy

KINGMAN – The City of Kingman is notifying

National Day of Prayer observed

KINGMAN – A National Day of Prayer event

Two years for possession of a kilogram of

KINGMAN – Transporting illegal drugs into Mohave County

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Bullhead City Striper Derby this Weekend

There is still time to register for the 2019 Bullhead City Striper Derby, which will be held June 8-9, 2019. Registration is open online at https://bhcreelincashderby.eventbrite.com and cost $25 per angler for largest striper and a $10 buy in for heaviest stringer and blind bogey. Onsite registration, fish weigh in and the Derby awards ceremony will be located at Rusty’s Riviera Marina on 520 Riviera Blvd, Bullhead City, AZ. Registrants 17 years and younger are welcome to participate for $5 per entry, per category with the chance to win a swag bag full of prizes. Each registered angler receives an event t-shirt,…

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Life jacket exchange scheduled in Kingman

Arizona’s boating season is here and the Arizona Game and Fish Department is helping watergoers prepare for a safe time on the water by offering multiple life jacket exchange events in the coming weeks.  Now in its 11th year, the Life Jacket Exchange program allows people with an old, worn out life jacket to swap it for a new one (while supplies last). Last year, the department’s Boating Safety Education program exchanged 1,520 of the life-saving jackets. The events run from 10 a.m. to noon on June 15 at Arizona Game and Fish Department Kingman Office. Please note that Type…

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Data center construction underway

Two companies are partnering in development and operation of a $3-billion renewable energy data center about 12 miles south of Kingman. Solar panels are already arriving for assembly at the 717 acre site off of Interstate 40. Pegasus Group Holdings and Plus Minus Power have crews constructing “The Hive” which will generate 340 Megawatts of electricity, nearly half the output of Hoover Dam. About 160,000 solar panels will power hundreds of cargo containers that will house up to a half-million computers. “We’re going to be providing service to people who have servers that need to run them, so it could…

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Legendary WWII Navajo Code Talkers honored as part of Lake Havasu City Memorial Walkway

A memorial walkway, which extends under the famously relocated London Bridge, will now feature bricks honoring the service of the legendary World War II Navajo Code Talkers. At 9 a.m. on Saturday, June 8, the Havasu Freedom Foundation will unveil 33 bricks along the walkway dedicated to the instrumental work of the code talkers; however, only 29 bricks will bear names as national historians continue to research the backgrounds of four additional military members involved in the once top-secret military program. All of the original 29 Code Talkers are deceased. While there are statues, plaques and museums honoring code talkers…

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MRF hosts GOP chairman

The public is invited to the Mohave Republican Forum meeting on Wednesday, June 12, at 5:30 p.m., with Dr. Kelli Ward, Arizona State GOP Chairman will be speaking and answering questions. Topics and questions to be answered include without limitation: What is the agenda to regain the State Offices (Secretary of State {Lt. Gov.} and the Supt. of Public Instruction and increase the House and Senate majority? What is being done to keep the U.S. Senate seat, the U.S. House seats in Arizona, and increase Arizona’s U.S House seats held by Republicans?  What can be done to have public education, and State, County and City infrastructure better…

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Lash gets year of probation for assault

Involved attorneys and Judge Billy Sipe agrees that mystery clouds the case of a Las Vegas man who claimed to be on a religious pilgrimage when discovered completely naked on a Chloride hillside more than a year ago. Mohave County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the naked subject report on February 20, 2018. A sheriff’s office report said that 39-year-old Nicholas Lash did not comply with directives and struggled during an attempt to detain him. It said he made religious references when he told deputies they should not interfere. “He was the son of God and (deputies) had no right to…

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