Laurel Morales
Senior Field CorrespondentSenior Field Correspondent Laurel Morales (Flagstaff) has been a public radio reporter for 10 years; eight of them in Arizona. She has won several awards for her work, including national recognition from Public Radio News Director Inc. (PRNDI) for the only commentary she’s ever written. She prefers to highlight compelling voices other than her own and has covered blizzards, wildfires, floods and tornadoes. Morales came to northern Arizona from rural Minnesota where she worked as a reporter after receiving her master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
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A former editor of Guns & Ammo magazine has been arrested for shooting and killing a friend Wednesday in Mohave County.
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More people than ever are riding off-highway vehicles and motorbikes throughout the Southwest. At the same time National Forests must comply with federal rules to limit that traffic and close some roads. -
Forest managers, policy makers and entrepreneurs are meeting this week in Flagstaff to discuss what to do with small trees before they become fuel for catastrophic wildfires or food for beetles. -
Tribal leaders from across the Southwest gathered in Arizona this week to discuss how to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. -
Fire season is upon us. Government leaders, climate forecasters and fire experts talked Thursday about the most vulnerable regions, and the Southwest topped the list. -
Representatives from hundreds of tribes are meeting this week in Arizona to redouble enforcement efforts of the Indian Child Welfare Act. The law was passed three decades ago, but today American Indian children are more than twice as likely to be sent to foster homes, often off the reservation.
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