Category: Community News

A multiple fatality traffic accident closed the westbound lanes of Interstate 40 ten miles southwest of Kingman at 9:06 a.m. Friday. The Department of Public Safety said a wrong-way driving incident led to the head on collision at milepost 36. DPS said at least four people were dead at the scene of the accident. A fifth person died following transport to Kingman Regional Medical Center. One westbound lane was reopened to traffic just before noon.  Names of the victims are withheld pending notification of kin and the accident is under investigation.

An international team of paleontologists has united to study important fossil footprints recently discovered in a remote location within Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. A large sandstone boulder contains several exceptionally well-preserved trackways of primitive tetrapods (four-footed animals) which inhabited an ancient desert environment. The 280-million-year-old fossil tracks date to almost the beginning of the Permian Period, prior to the appearance of the earliest dinosaurs. The first scientific article reporting fossil tracks from the Grand Canyon was published in 1918, just a year before the park was established as a unit of the National Park Service. One hundred years later,…

The Bullhead City Police Department’s Waterways Unit will begin patrolling the Colorado River this Memorial Holiday Weekend and would like to remind residents and visitors to be safe around water this summer. The Bullhead City Police and Fire Departments, Western Arizona Regional Medical Center, Mohave County Parks and the City of Bullhead City have kicked off the “Don’t Wreck Your Weekend” campaign to promote boating safety.  The Bullhead City Police Department responds to approximately 50 watercraft accidents every summer on the river. One common violation is of the “proximity law,” where watercrafts must remain 60 feet apart from each other…

Caitlyn Roseborough, of Golden Valley, qualified for the Spring 2019 Dean’s List at Belmont University. Eligibility is based on a minimum course load of 12 hours and a quality grade point average of 3.5 with no grade below a C. Approximately 32 percent of Belmont’s 8,318 students qualified for the Spring 2019 Dean’s List. Belmont Provost Dr. Thomas Burns said, “This achievement for the fall semester indicates that these students have placed a high priority on their work at Belmont and have invested time and energy in their studies. It is our strong belief that consistent application in this manner…