Category: Community News

LAKE HAVASU CITY – Lake Havasu City is again reminding political candidates and property owners that political signs must conform to local zoning ordinances. Political signs are allowed on private property and are allowed in all zoning districts, but there are limitations on where they may be placed. Political signs placed in the public rights-of-way may be placed sixty days prior to the election and all political signs in the right-of-way must be removed within fifteen days after the election to which they refer.  Any sign located in the right-of-way must contain the name, telephone number or website address of…

MOHAVE COUNTY – A single day surge of 33 news cases last Friday is testament to the fact that COVID-19 is not slowing down in Mohave County. That’s one of the points Department of Public Health Director Denise Burley made during Monday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. “For the last three weeks we’ve seen a pretty steady increase; 30%, then 12% and then a 19% increase in cases from previous weeks,” Burley said. She also noted that change is detected in infection points. “We want to be mindful of the fact that for the last two weeks the majority of those…

KINGMAN – As Kingman eases out of the COVID-19 restrictions and stores open up, the Kingman Center for the Arts is easing back into what will be their second 2020 session of art education classes held at the ArtHub in downtown Kingman at the corner of Beale Street and Fourth Street (402 E Beale Sr). Education Director Sandra Romanski states that classes will follow the CDC guidelines with social distancing and other safety guidelines implemented in the classroom settings. The Kingman Center for the Arts facility alternates between an art gallery show and an arts education center. For six weeks…

LAKE HAVASU CITY – A Las Vegas man drowned over the weekend at Lake Havasu. Mohave County Sheriff’s office spokeswoman Anita Mortensen said public safety personnel from several agencies responded at 3:01 p.m. Saturday when it was reported that a man went missing in the area of Thompson Bay. “A firefighter with the Lake Havasu City Fire Department located the missing male on the lake bottom about 25 feet offshore and in about seven feet of water,” Mortensen said. “Fire personnel along with MCSO deputies and Lake Havasu City police officers pulled the male to shore and began CPR and…