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Renewable energy plans in the works for the West

The Department of the Interior has announced an updated roadmap for solar energy development across the West, designed to expand solar energy production in more Western states and make renewable energy siting and permitting on America’s public lands more efficient.  The Bureau of Land Management also announced the next steps on several renewable projects in Arizona, California and Nevada, representing more than 1,700 megawatts of potential solar generation and 1,300 megawatts of potential battery storage capacity.  During the Biden-Harris administration, the BLM has approved 47 clean energy projects and permitted 11,236 megawatts of wind, solar and geothermal energy on public…

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OnStar leads to stolen vehicle, arrests

BULLHEAD CITY – A stolen vehicle investigation has led to the arrest of a Tucson couple in Bullhead City. Police Department spokeswoman Emily Fromelt said a stolen vehicle alert from OnStar led officers to the 2000 block of Swan Circle at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 23. “The people who had the keys to the parked stolen vehicle were staying in a shed at this location,” Fromelt said. She said officers first detained and subsequently arrested Cody King and Nicole Parker, both 25, for theft, drug and other charges. “Police located numerous blue counterfeit M-30 pills containing Fentanyl and three glass…

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OnStar leads to stolen vehicle, arrests

BULLHEAD CITY – A stolen vehicle investigation has led to the arrest of a Tucson couple in Bullhead City. Police Department spokeswoman Emily Fromelt said a stolen vehicle alert from OnStar led officers to the 2000 block of Swan Circle at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 23. “The people who had the keys to the parked stolen vehicle were staying in a shed at this location,” Fromelt said. She said officers first detained and subsequently arrested Cody King and Nicole Parker, both 25, for theft, drug and other charges. “Police located numerous blue counterfeit M-30 pills containing Fentanyl and three glass…

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Supervisors receive anti-semitic mail

MOHAVE COUNTY – At least three of the five Mohave County supervisors received an anti-semitic postcard at their home addresses Tuesday. The mailings follow the Board’s Jan. 16 vote adopting a resolution supporting the right of the nation and people of Israel to defend themselves against terrorist aggression. “Stop taking orders from an anti-white zioni$t hate group,” reads the cards received by Chairman Hildy Angius and Supervisors Buster Johnson and Jean Bishop. “These postcards were sent to educate public servants without malicious intent.” The cards assert that the holocaust was fake news and that “Jews did 911.” Angius said she’ll…

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County to end state contract on immunizations

MOHAVE COUNTY – At their board meeting on Tuesday, the Mohave County Board of Supervisors in a 3-2 decision, voted to not extend the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) contract that is linked to the CDC’s Bridge Access Program.  According to Supervisor Buster Johnson, who voted in favor of extending the contract, the motion to deny the extension will mean an end to all immunizations once undertaken by the County’s health department.  “I understand the majority of the Board voted this down due to the extension giving us additional funding to administer the COVID-19 vaccines to underinsured individuals; however,…

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