Quartzsite News

After much preparation and anticipation, Arizona Western College has announced the opening of its newest learning center at its Quartzsite campus.

Editor's Note: The following story was taken from RVing Quartzsite, a blog writeen by Russ and Tina De Maris from Quartzsite, Ariz, a popular winter destination for winter RVers and site of a major RV industry show each January.

The Bureau of Land Management is planning a public scoping meeting to provide the opportunity for the public to learn more about the planned Copperstone Underground Mine and Mill development and reactivation underway within the Yuma Field Office planning area.

The Escapees RV Club is sponsoring a second "RVers Boot Camp" this month after the original one was sold out and a long waiting list developed.

Further budget cutbacks to state law enforcement agencies could mean losing 350 to 570 positions at the Arizona Department of Public Safety, with the majority them being Highway Patrol officers, some of whom will be from Yuma's District 4. "The specific number of positions that will be lost in the Yuma area is difficult to figure out right now," ...

Yuma County has been awarded another stimulus-funded highway project to extend pavement preservation work on US 95 north of Yuma.

An officer with the Arizona Department of Public Safety stopped a white 2000 Dodge Dakota pick-up truck for a traffic violation westbound on Interstate 10 just east of Quartzite on the evening of Sept.

Past the Coachella Valley, where the desert floor pushes the mountains out of sight, my grandfather levitates above a steamy I-10, alternately stiff-arming the grill and checking the coolant level of my eastbound station wagon.

U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Yuma Sector's Blythe Station seized more than 50 pounds of marijuana Saturday evening from a car passing through its Highway 95 checkpoint.

A traffic stop along Interstate 10 resulted in the seizure of more than 38 pounds of cocaine in western Arizona.

The Department of Public Safety arrested Hevert Bautista-Hernandez of Sonora, Mexico for criminal speed and transporting 38.4 pounds of cocaine.

Authorities are investigating a fatal two-vehicle collision in La Paz County early Monday morning.

Yuma County will be under an excessive heat watch later this week and throughout the weekend, with temperatures expected to possibly even reach record levels.

District 24 State Senator Amanda Aguirre said she hopes lawmakers will restore some of the money to the state budget cut last month by the Legislature in Monday's special session called by Gov.

This month is Rusty's birthday; at least I think it is. I'm not sure when she was born.

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Directs the Sale of 24 Placer and 55 Unpatented Load Mining Claims Including the Golconda Mine in La Paz County, AZ by Sheldon Good & Company NEW YORK, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Sheldon Good & Company Auctions , the nation's largest real estate auction company, has been retained by bankruptcy court to auction gold mining claims ...

A total of six people were killed in five unrelated accidents on Arizona highways during the long Memorial Day weekend.