Lake Havasu City News

Dave Grayson Special to the Times BLYTHE - It's summertime, local Saturday night race tracks are open, drivers and their crews are busy prepping their cars for the next upcoming race on their schedule.

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The Arizona Department of Health Services started accepting applications for medical marijuana dispensary registration certificates on May 14.

Mohave County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a zoning use permit for a 107-space, 84-acre luxury motorcoach resort project at The Refuge Golf & Country Club in Lake Havasu City , Arizona.

Arizona did just that when Disney's big-budget film adaption of "The Lone Ranger" set its sights on Tucson when searching for locations to shoot this spring, according to Shelli Hall of the Tucson Film Office.

Lots of water. Water for Lake Havasu remains consistent despite an unusually warm March, lower mountain snowpack and estimates that 2012 will be the second-driest year the Colorado River has seen since the drought began in 2000.

The driver of a red corvette that ended up at the bottom of a ditch is believed to have suffered a medical event just prior to the accident.

Atkins, one of the world's leading engineering and design firms, is pleased to note that the Wastewater System Expansion Program of Lake Havasu City, Arizona has won the 2012 Wastewater System Project of the Year Award from the Arizona Water Association .

Statistics from the Arizona Department of Health Services show better than 99 percent of those who applied were approved for the cards during the first year of the voter-approved program, which is still being implemented.

Only two of them are younger than the diocese itself with the others established before Dec.

On Wednesday, the Mohave County Planning and Zoning Commission continued a zoning use permit request from the animal sanctuary's owner, Hillary Allison, for 30 days to give her time to submit a site plan and apply for permits for two travel trailers on the property.