Casey Kuhn

Reporters Mariana Dale and Casey Kuhn led KJZZ's coverage of the Arizona teacher strike in 2018, following the story wherever it went: schools, meetings, protests at the state Capitol. This week, the story took Dale and Kuhn to New York City, where they accepted the national Edward R. Murrow Award.

The latest agriculture census was released earlier this year by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It details all the types of farms and farmers in America and breaks down the data by congressional district in each state. One district in Arizona has more Native American farmers than any other in the country. → Arizona Millennial Farmers Keep Industry Moving Forward

The median age of a farmer in Arizona is somewhere between 55 and 64 years old. This is a nationwide trend as farmers get older and fewer young people go into the profession. Three Millennial farmers are taking up the reins in the local agriculture industry. → Farm Dogs May Be Key To Protecting Ranches Against Mexican Gray Wolf

Farming often involves traveling long distances in remote areas to check on crops or cattle. And no matter what crop is being harvested, you’ll often find many farms share one thing in common — a farm dog. Working dogs may be a tool in the ongoing battle between cattle ranchers and the reintroduction of the Mexican gray wolf. → How A Reporter Helped Rescue 3 Waterlogged Dogs At A Surprise Farm

Roswell Bookbinding, based in Maryvale, has been binding the St. John's Bible for the last 10 years. Copies of these heritage editions of the hand-scribed and hand-illuminated texts reside in university libraries, the Library of Congress and the Vatican.

The same data, which scientists began collecting in 1961, shows the amount of rainstorms annually went up on average 15%.

The latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released this week shows there was a 5% decrease in people dying from drug overdoses across the country in 2018 as the same time the year before. But in the Southwest, many states saw that number increase.

Arizona health officials are pushing a new curriculum aimed at slowing the opioid overdose epidemic from the medicine prescribing angle. Another way to try and do that is being tested out by resident doctors by training their peers in using some of those same ideas of empathetic pain and addiction treatment. → Arizona Fellowships Offer Aspiring Doctors Path Into Addiction Medicine

A $2.2 million settlement has resulted from a lawsuit alleging farming companies around Yuma did not adequately pay migrant workers over multiple seasons.

Maricopa County Department of Transportation is testing a program that uses wireless sensors to monitor drive times in work sites on county roads.