Griselda Zetino, a multimedia reporter, has a passion for storytelling. She joined the KTAR News team in December 2016. Prior to that, she worked as a freelance journalist. Her clients included NBC Latino, The Guardian and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. She enjoys covering politics, education and immigration. The Mexico native earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Arizona State University in May 2011, and she is currently a board member for the Arizona Latino Media Association.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 24, 2022Arizona State Board of Education to vote on rule changes for substitute teachers
The Arizona State Board of Education on Monday will consider changes that are meant to make it easier to get more substitute teachers in the classroom.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 21, 2022ASU program provides Maryvale students with free high-speed internet access
An Arizona State University initiative is stepping in to help students of a west Phoenix community by providing free high-speed internet to families.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 13, 2022Here’s why under 20% of Arizona kids age 3-4 are enrolled in preschool
Quality early learning is one of the best ways to get young kids ready for kindergarten and beyond, but only a small fraction in Arizona attend preschool and other programs like it.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 12, 2022Police department launches in growing community of Queen Creek
The Queen Creek Police Department officially launched right after midnight on Tuesday with cruisers hitting the streets of the fast-growing town in the East Valley.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 10, 2022
Student absences rise in Phoenix-area school districts after winter break
Several school districts across the Phoenix metro area saw higher than normal student absentee rates in the first week back from winter break.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 7, 2022COVID-19 pandemic causes Arizona to fall further behind on meeting key education goals
Arizona has several education goals to reach by 2030, and so far the pandemic has caused the state to fall further behind.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 6, 2022Tempe teacher: ‘We’re struggling to cover classes’ because of COVID
As students and staff head back to school following winter break, a Valley teacher describes the struggle to find personnel to cover classrooms.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Dec 23, 2021Arizona police officers make Christmas extra bright for kids
For more than three decades, police officers in Arizona have been making Christmas extra bright for kids with the Blue Santa Toy Giveaway.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Dec 22, 2021Arizona TSA official shares holiday travel tips for smoother experience
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has advice for holiday travelers to help make their flying experience run more smoothly.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Dec 21, 2021Phoenix nursing graduate still motivated despite health care burnout from pandemic
Even with so many health care workers in Arizona hospitals stretched thin right now, a Phoenix man is looking forward to becoming a nurse.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Dec 20, 2021
Several Phoenix-area cities giving away free COVID-19 rapid test kits
Ahead of Christmas gatherings, several cities across the metro Phoenix area are giving away free COVID-19 rapid test kits.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Dec 17, 2021Arizona’s airports to get nearly $70 million from infrastructure law in first year
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration announced Thursday Arizona’s 58 airports will receive $69.5 million over the next year for infrastructure improvements.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Dec 15, 2021Banner Health warns its Arizona hospitals are stretched thin
The state’s largest hospital system is running out of beds to care for patients and warned Tuesday it may need to start choosing who can receive care if hospitalization trends continue.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Dec 14, 2021Phoenix-area school district uses ridesharing to transport students
The Tolleson Union High School District recently said it is contracting a rideshare company called HopSkipDrive to pick up students from their home and take them to the nearest school bus stop.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Dec 10, 2021TSA finds record number of guns at Phoenix Sky Harbor checkpoints
A record number of firearms have been detected at security checkpoints through Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport so far this year.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Dec 9, 202114-year-old from Mesa feels like ‘just another student’ at ASU
At 14 years old, Christian Armanti is one year away from earning a bachelor’s degree and one of 45 students who are 16 or younger enrolled at Arizona State University.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Dec 6, 2021Phoenix Union High School District revisits its school safety plan after shooting
The Phoenix Union High School District is looking to improve its school safety plan after a shooting last week at one of its high schools.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Dec 3, 2021Arizona group ‘very disappointed’ US will again require asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico
A faith-based organization in southern Arizona is “very disappointed” the Biden administration will reinstate the Trump-era program that requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their court hearings.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Dec 2, 2021Arizona health expert: Restricting US travel not the answer for omicron spread
The United States is looking to add more travel rules now that the new omicron variant of the coronavirus has been detected in California, but a local health expert doesn’t think travel bans are the answer.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Dec 1, 2021Sky Harbor, Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport see increased traffic over Thanksgiving holiday
People who flew over the Thanksgiving holiday might’ve noticed more travelers as two Valley airports reported seeing increased passengers.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Nov 24, 2021Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport to get millions from infrastructure bill
Millions of federal dollars for repairs and upgrades are headed to the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in the East Valley thanks to the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill signed into law this month.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Nov 15, 2021Infrastructure bill could make Phoenix-to-Tucson passenger rail possible
The $1 trillion infrastructure bill that U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona helped negotiate could help pay for a passenger rail service that would connect Phoenix and Tucson, making it easier to travel back and forth.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Nov 11, 2021Sen. Kyrsten Sinema supports adding immigration policies to spending bill
U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona said she supports adding protections for undocumented immigrants to the federal spending bill but has some reservations.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Nov 5, 2021Mesa mom able to ‘breathe a sigh of relief’ thanks to COVID-19 vaccine for young kids
Pfizer’s newly-approved COVID-19 vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11 brings relief for a Mesa mom who wasted no time to get her daughter vaccinated.