Katherine Davis-Young
Senior Field Correspondent | [email protected]Katherine Davis-Young is a senior field correspondent reporting on a variety of issues, including public health and climate change.
She holds a master’s degree in radio journalism from the USC Annenberg School of Journalism.
She has produced work for NPR, New England Public Radio, Southern California Public Radio, the World, Washington Post, Reuters and more.
She lives in central Phoenix with her husband and two daughters.
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Monsoon season is almost here and models show a powerful El Niño could bring some much-needed moisture to the Southwest. But Arizona may still have a few months to wait before that rain arrives. -
The measles outbreak connected to communities along the Arizona-Utah border has come to an end, according to public health officials. -
Prescribing abortion medications via telehealth was previously banned by a state law. But a court ruling in February voided that, and several other abortion regulations in Arizona. -
The annual Kids Count Data Book ranks states in categories of health, family and community, education, and economic well-being. Arizona ranked 40th out of 50 states for overall child wellbeing. -
If municipalities or counties are found to be intentionally obstructing the approval of licenses for single-family home construction, they will face a $5,000 penalty. -
Homeowners associations would no longer be able to enforce as many restrictions on umbrellas, pergolas or other shade structures in backyards after the governor signed the measure Friday. -
Phoenix’s average temperature for March, April and May was 80.2 degrees, which is 6.4 degrees above normal. -
A hantavirus case in Mohave County was from a different strain than the Andes strain that caused deaths on a cruise ship. The strain in the Arizona case is not known for person-to-person transmission. -
Arizona’s largest measles outbreak in more than 30 years is showing promising signs of slowing down. It has been about three weeks since Mohave County reported a new measles case. -
Mobile homes and RVs make up only about 5% of housing in Maricopa County. But in recent years, nearly 25% of indoor heat-related deaths in the county have occurred in them.
