Hualapai News

Last night, hundreds of teenage girls, moms with wistful romantic longings and a handful of dudes A gathered in Surprise for theA Twifans.com and CullenBoysAnonymous " New Moon Rising Over Arizona" party and midnight premiere of the next film in the Twilight saga.

"New Moon," the sequel to the immensely popular "Twilight" vampire romance film, debuts in theaters this Friday, with one of the movie's stars set to make a special appearance in Kingman just days after the film's release.

Hualapai Tribe Council members are declining to talk about what happened during a meeting Nov.

LAKE HAVASU CITY a ' Two huge solar projects got the green light this week from Mohave County supervisors.

Both solar companies were unanimously approved for General Plan amendments and other zoning requests by the Board of Supervisors Monday, but not without some comments from both sides of the issue.

The Board of Supervisors has plenty to consider on Monday's agenda. The main topic of conversation will probably be the two major General Plan amendments for the Albiasa and Hualapai Valley solar power plants.

World-famous Amazon ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin visited Cline Library on Nov. 7 to speak at an event hosted by the Arizona Enthnobotanical Research Association, NAU Botany Club and the Anthropology Department.

The management of Grand Canyon West and its oversight of the Grand Canyon Skywalk are up for review among members of the Hualapai Tribal Council.

Kingman Mayor John Salem attempted to answer questions about the city's proposed sale of effluent water to Hualapai Valley Solar, near Red Lake, during a town hall meeting Wednesday evening.

Despite pleas from residents not to, the County Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5-4 Wednesday to remove the Call to the Public from the commission's regular agenda.

Albiasa's one and only chance to get a major amendment to the County General Plan this year was approved 5-3 by the County Planning and Zoning Commission Wednesday.

The Hualapai Mountain Medical Center will open for business at 9 a.m. today, officially making Kingman a two-hospital town.

" A Yavapai Indian honored by the Heard Museum on Friday for his efforts to preserve his tribe's language and culture said the need to document language was as urgent as ever.

Planning for Hualapai Valley Solar, a 340-megawatt solar plant near Red Lake, continues.

Hualapai Mountain Park made its first profit in a decade last year, according to a report from WLB Group.

Ross D. Franklin/ The Associated Press Ted Vaughn, 81, of the Yavapai Prescott Indian tribe, talks about his native language during his remarks after getting the sixth annual Spirit of the Heard Award ceremony at the Heard Museum Friday in Phoenix.

Residents will have another chance to voice their opinions on the proposed Hualapai Valley Solar project.

Virginia Gouldsbury and Tyler Richins, both Game and Fish wildlife managers, remove a garbage lid from an elk's neck in the Hualapai Mountains a few years ago.

Sharlot Hall Museum/ Courtesy photo Sergeant William Al-che-say, a White Mountain Apache scout under General Crook at Camp Verde, was cited for gallantry and awarded the Medal of Honor in 1875.

The city's official sales tax revenue numbers for fiscal year 2008-2009 are in, and while overall revenues were down from the prior year, Kingman actually experienced a 25-percent increase in the amount of revenue generated by new construction.