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Gov. Jan Brewer speaks in Sedona, defends immigration law

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer used Sedona as a platform Thursday, July 1, to discuss the nationwide reaction to Senate Bill 1070, Arizona’s new immigration law. Brewer said that the bill merely mirrors existing federal law. Passage...

Attorney general’s office rules on complaint

The Arizona Attorney General’s Office last week ruled that there was no open meeting law violation despite a complaint filed by several residents in May against Sedona Fire District Governing Board member Charles Christensen. Assistant Attorney General Majorie S....

Coconino County Sheriff’s Office finds lost hiker

Investigators of the Flagstaff Police Department and Coconino County Sheriff's Office located Salvatore Pascarelli, declared a missing person, on Saturday, July 3, in Las Vegas. Pascarelli reportedly took a Greyhound bus from Flagstaff to Las Vegas on July...

Meet Your Newsroom: Constance Israel

The news stories, editorials, photo captions, letters to the editor, columns and press releases appearing in the Sedona Red Rock News are written by hundreds of different Sedona residents. Constance Israel, Larson Newspapers’ copy editor since 2008, faces the...

Bear still on the lam

The black bear raiding trash cans in the Morgan Road area again eluded Sedona police and Arizona Game and Fish Department officers Wednesday, June 23. The bear had been sighted several times throughout the day in the area of...

Meet Your Newsroom: Photojournalist Tom Hood

Most of the photographs anchoring the pages of the Sedona Red Rock News are shot by Tom Hood, one of Larson Newspapers’ two full-time photojournalists. After working 13 years for a Prescott area newspaper, Hood spent...

Nighttime fire damages West Sedona spa

A fire broke out in a storage walkway at the New Day Spa in West Sedona at Willow Way and State Route 89A around 10:45 p.m., Thursday, June 17, according to Gary Johnson, Sedona...

Meet Your Newsroom: Brian Bergner Jr.

There’s not likely a high school student athlete in the Verde Valley unfamiliar with Larson Newspapers sports reporter Brian Bergner Jr. — either on the sidelines or the newspaper page. For more than three years, Bergner, 27, has covered...

74-year-old man beaten to death

Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a man and charged him with first-degree murder after responding to a reported assault Monday, June 14. According to Dwight D’Evelyn, YCSO public information officer,deputies responded to...

Members ‘upset’ with Seven Canyons golf club

Seven Canyons’ investors are not the only ones affected by its bankruptcy filing May 27. Hans Epprecht and Billy Morley say they represent 254 “upset members” of the private golf club, located two miles north of West Sedona. Foreseeing...

About Me

Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been a guest contributor in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured in the LA Times, New York Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He lectures on journalism, media law and the First Amendment and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."
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