Matthew Casey
Senior Field CorrespondentMatthew Casey has won Edward R. Murrow awards for hard news and sports reporting since he joined KJZZ in 2015.
Casey helped open two local bureaus. He covered immigration during the Trump administration. Casey reported, wrote and produced the podcast "Empty Seats" about the pandemic’s effect on the professional sports industry in metro Phoenix.
Before public radio, he worked for newspapers, digital media and at a television station. “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away,” Casey and a buddy rode a bus to Mexico City to cover Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s first presidential bid.
Casey is a proud Spanish speaker and grateful to the immigrants who taught him while working in restaurants. When he’s not reporting for KJZZ, Casey enjoys swimming laps, going to University of Arizona football games and exploring Cochise County.
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The Phoenix District Office on Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued a construction company for allegedly discriminating and retaliating against a diabetic welder. Now Cutting Edge Supply will pay the former worker $150,000 to settle the case. -
The Phoenix Police Department has been led for years by an interim chief. Four finalists vying for the permanent job took part in a public forum Wednesday night in City Council chambers. -
A pot farm as big as Alien Labs produces an enormous amount of odor, which is still taboo even though weed is legal. The perfume plants release during harvest is unavoidable, and perhaps the most pungent. -
The U.S. Department of Defense says it's restoring online content about a Pima Indian from Arizona seen in one of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century. An effort is underway by the Trump administration to delete material promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. -
Federal officials say they’ve moved all migrant children out of facilities run by Southwest Key Programs, and the nonprofit that operates in Arizona will no longer care for kids. But the federal agency that becomes the guardian of children who show up alone at the U.S.-Mexico border won’t say where they’ve been taken. -
KJZZ has a new podcast tracking the life of marijuana plants from tiny clones to smoke and ashes. This week on Reefer Growing Madness, the brand founder defines connoisseur-level weed. -
Local and federal officials cheered in November when part of the Santa Cruz River in southern Arizona was tagged to be part of a namesake future urban wildlife refuge. Now, a conservation group is injecting $600,000 into the effort. -
The Arizona Attorney General's Office filed a consumer fraud lawsuit against what she calls the dominant player in a multibillion dollar industry for the banking of umbilical cord blood. CBR Systems Inc. is so far silent about the case. -
The nation’s top law enforcement officer has appointed an interim head of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Arizona.
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An attorney for a teen who in 2024 had his chin split open and broke his wrist while Phoenix police arrested him says the officers involved should be fired. A new claim against the city accuses officers of not following state law for handling child abuse allegations.
