Michel Marizco
Fronteras Desk Senior EditorFronteras Desk senior editor Michel Marizco is an award-winning investigative reporter based in Flagstaff. His reporting from the U.S.-Mexico border has revealed government wrongdoings and led to lengthy prison sentences for predators targeting vulnerable populations in southern Arizona.
He leads a diverse team of reporters who work in the vast and remote Navajo Nation, in quiet immigrant communities in Phoenix and along the Mexican border.
Their work focuses on the enterprising efforts in these regions to bring them into the 21st century’s global marketplace; the cultures, curiosities and tensions as these places change; and on those weird, wild stories that make the U.S.-Mexico border such an inherently fascinating region.
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The council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve an ordinance banning BB guns, crossbows, pellet guns, slingshots and longbows in its parks and open spaces. But it doesn’t ban firearms. -
The first of the novel influenza virus cases in humans were detected earlier this week in two people working with infected poultry at a commercial site in Pinal County. -
Coconino County will use a nearly half-million dollar grant to make housing more stable for area residents. -
The town of Tusayan at the entrance to Grand Canyon National Park, will be undergoing flood control drainage measures after receiving a grant worth millions of dollars. -
Grand Canyon National Park is under mandatory water conservation measures as of Tuesday morning. -
The Navajo Nation plans to open a gaming facility on property it owns just northeast of Flagstaff. -
The Navajo Nation is again suing Apache County over what it says were delays in processing early ballots for the 2024 elections. -
The National Park Service is considering a fee increase. Right now, fees are $18, and the agency says the price to camp hasn’t gone up in 20 years. -
One of the oldest observatories in the country now boasts one of the newest ways to explore the universe. Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff opened its Astronomy Discovery Center on Nov. 16. -
Voters in Sedona overwhelmingly rejected the City Council’s plan to provide parking spaces at a city-owned lot for local workers to live in.
