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YCSO investigating shooting of 3 people, 1 fatally, in the Red Rock Crossing area

The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office was called to the scene of a fatal shooting involving three people that left one man dead on the evening of Sunday, June 26. A call for shots fired occurred in the Red Rock...

SCOTUS ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health overturns Roe v. Wade. What happens in Arizona is not yet clear

In a ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization out of Mississippi, released Friday, June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide 49 years ago. The court held...

Inflation & gas not easily fixed, so vote wisely

Brian Deese, director of the National Economic Council, spoke to National Public Radio on June 15 about the White House’s plans to tackle inflation and high gas prices. Among the many gems about gas, Deese told NPR, “The president is...

Coconino County enters State 3 Fire Restrictions, banning smoking & all open flames

Coconino County entered Stage 3 Fire Restrictions at 3 p.m. today, June 17. The restrictions apply for all of Coconino County. Fire restrictions are enacted to help protect public health and safety by reducing the number of human-caused wildfires. This...

USFS closes parts of Coconino and Kaibab national forests due to fire risk

Coconino and Kaibab national forests will temporarily close certain areas to public access beginning Friday and Saturday due to fire danger and for public safety, while all other parts of the national forests outside of the closure areas remain...

Pipeline Fire burning 26,297 acres northwest of Flagstaff is 27% contained

The Pipeline Fire, located 6 miles north of Flagstaff, was reported on June 12, 2022 at 10:15 a.m. by a fire lookout. The Double Fire, which was first reported Monday, has merged with the Haywire Fire, and is now...

Be wary as temperatures near or top 100°

Last week was a scorcher. Most of the Southwest was under an excessive heat warning, with a few days later this week also reaching near 100 degrees. In hotter Cottonwood, temperatures average about 5 degrees hotter than Sedona while down...

Meet City Council candidates in the weeks ahead

Dear readers and voters, we are two months away from deciding who to elect to lead our governments for the next few years. We will be publishing interviews with state, legislative and congressional candidates who take the time to visit...

DPS seeks information about fatal accident on I-17 near SR 179 exit

On Saturday, May 28, at about 1:10 a.m., a fatal collision occurred on Interstate 17 southbound near at milepost 302, four miles north of the State Route 179 exit. The driver, 19-year-old Charles Mann, of Mesa, of a gold Saturn...

Ethics demand we journalists earn trust by our objectivity

When major world events happen, be it the invasions of and withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan, the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the leaking of the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft ruling overturning roe Roe v Wade,...

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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