Category: Community News

BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. (AP) — There is no evidence an Arizona house fire that killed five children was caused by arson, authorities said Wednesday. Investigators with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives found no trace of accelerants on debris samples taken from the December blaze, Bullhead City Police said in a news release. The cause remains undetermined. Both ATF and the Lake Havasu City Fire Department are still investigating. The father of four of the children left them and a young relative in the house on the afternoon of Dec. 16 while he went out to do some…

LAKE HAVASU CITY – Just in case you missed the Havasu Art Trail event, there’s another exhibit gearing up their displays this weekend for the Art at the Lake showing. Since 1978, The Havasu Art Guild has been a support system to many of our local artists through seminars, workshops, exhibits, and art shows.  In celebration of the guild’s 45th anniversary, the private nonprofit will be presenting works from fifty local artists at their celebration. One of those local artists is retiree Bill Schaufel who decided to pick up painting and drawings through independent instruction.  With watercolors, canvas, oils and acrylics, the artist’s…

Brand management seems to be a corporate nightmare in this age of information and advertising. In just the past year, companies like Anheuser Busch, Target, and Disney, have all faced various forms of boycotts over their stance on cultural issues. For instance, Bud Light, an Anheuser Busch subsidiary, took massive hits over a marketing campaign that included transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. While few like to talk openly about companies that have gone “woke,” especially due to fear of being cancelled by culture, there is still an adage that says people vote with their wallets and feet. In the case of…

BULLHEAD CITY, AZ., February 28, 2023 – Hancock Road from Highway 95 to Colorado Blvd will be closed one section at a time Beginning Sunday, March 03, at 8 p.m. while City street maintenance crews work overnight to apply a slurry seal as a part of the City Street Maintenance Program (CSMP). A second lift of slurry will be applied the following week in the same order.   Both east and westbound traffic will be detoured around the maintenance during the road closures. No vehicles will be allowed to drive on the slurry while it sets. Businesses and homeowners will…

KINGMAN, Ariz. – The City of Kingman Solid Waste Department has begun the next phase of removing the 300-gallon and 1.5-yard steel shared containers from alleys and giving each customer their own 90-gallon container to be placed at the front of their homes. There will be no additional charge for having an individual container instead of a shared one in the alley. For those customers getting a replacement container, trash pick-up days will remain the same. This project will be completed in multiple phases over the next few years. This phase will include the following areas: 1700 to 1800 block…