About
Kevin Stone is KTAR’s Senior Web Content Editor. He is a seasoned journalist who was born in New York and grew up in Phoenix. He got his start doing agate for the Mesa Tribune sports section — remember newspapers? — in the 1990s while completing his print journalism degree. He went on to work for The Dallas Morning News as a copy editor and page designer for the paper’s award-winning sports section before spending nearly a decade in various positions with ESPN.com. He returned to the Valley in 2013 and joined the KTAR News digital team in 2018. His favorite activities are collecting records, going to concerts and sporting events, and dining out with his beautiful wife.
Expertise
- News and sports writing and editing
- Social media management
- Wordle wizardry
Education
- University of Arizona – Bachelor’s degree in general studies with minors in English, sociology and psychology.
- Arizona State University – Bachelor’s degree in journalism.
Social Media Profiles
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 3, 2021Gov. Ducey presses Arizona’s members of Congress for more vaccines
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey sent a letter to the state’s congressional delegation requesting help acquiring more COVID-19 vaccines.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 3, 2021Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers to undergo heart bypass surgery
Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers was hospitalized this week and is scheduled to undergo heart bypass surgery on Thursday.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 2, 2021Numbers show that Arizona has upped its COVID-19 vaccine game
Nearly 60% of Arizona’s COVID-19 vaccine supply has been administered, the state health department said Tuesday, a big jump from a week earlier.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 2, 2021FilmBar shuttering downtown Phoenix theater, will live on in new form
FilmBar’s funky but charming downtown Phoenix movie house will soon be no more, but, like a cult-movie zombie, the business will live on in a new incarnation.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 2, 2021Arizona Country Thunder festival delayed again because of pandemic
The Arizona Country Thunder music festival in Florence has been rescheduled for a third time, from April to October, because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 1, 2021Dining domes pop up outside Culinary Dropout at Scottsdale Quarter
Desert Domes have popped up outside the Culinary Dropout at Scottsdale Quarter, providing a fresh dining-out experience with COVID-19 safety in mind.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 1, 2021Rural Arizona counties can expect COVID-19 vaccine boost soon
It could be a while before Arizona’s overall COVID-19 vaccine allotment increases significantly, but the state’s rural counties can expect a boost this week, according to Dr. Cara Christ.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Feb 1, 2021Tomaso Maggiore, Phoenix restaurant icon, has died
Arizona restaurant legend Tomaso Maggiore, a fixture on the Valley culinary scene for more than four decades, died after battling cancer.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 29, 2021Phoenix police officer who fatally shot Ryan Whitaker won’t be charged
Calling the case “a tragedy,” prosecutors said they won’t charge a Phoenix police officer who fatally shot a man after he answered his apartment door while carrying a gun.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 29, 2021Despite questions, Kelli Ward says Arizona GOP election results are final
As Republicans continue to raise questions about the accuracy of the state party election, Arizona GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward said the results are “final, final.”
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 28, 2021Arizonans more willing to get vaccine, more worried about virus, poll finds
As COVID-19 cases surged, Arizonans grew more concerned about the pandemic and increased their willingness to get vaccinated, according to a new public opinion poll.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 28, 2021Arizona GOP chair runner-up calls for audit of party elections
The Arizona Republican Party, whose leader has repeatedly questioned the validity of Joe Biden’s presidential election victory in the state, is under internal scrutiny over its own elections.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 28, 20212 Arizona fugitives captured 5 days after prison escape
The two inmates who escaped from a central Arizona state prison over the weekend were apprehended Thursday in a Coolidge farm field, ending a 110-hour manhunt less than 15 miles from where it started.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 28, 2021Fixes for Arizona COVID-19 vaccine registration website are in works
The Arizona Department of Health Services is responding to complaints by making its online COVID-19 vaccination registration system more user friendly.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 27, 2021Arizona dealing with sign-up issues for 2nd doses of COVID-19 vaccine
Arizona Health Director Dr. Cara Christ said that authorities are actively working to help people struggling to schedule their second COVID-19 vaccine shot.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 27, 2021
Arizona consumer confidence fell as virus surged at end of 2020
Consumer confidence in Arizona’s economy was down toward the end of 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic surged, according to the Greater Phoenix Chamber’s Arizona Business Index.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 26, 2021
Under half of Arizona’s 1M COVID vaccine shots have been given
Less than half of the million-plus COVID-19 vaccine doses allocated to Arizona by the federal government as of Tuesday have made their way into people’s arms.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 26, 2021Lights go out on Phoenix ZooLights after this weekend
Phoenix Zoo’s annual nighttime ZooLights attraction will go dark after this weekend, and only two days remain for the drive-through option.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 26, 2021Arizona’s COVID-19 pandemic began with single case 1 year ago
One year ago on Jan. 26, Arizona reported its first confirmed COVID-19 case. The disease has claimed the lives of more than 12,000 Arizonans since then.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 26, 2021Phoenix ICU nurse warns that COVID can devastate young, healthy adults
A Phoenix nurse said her intensive care unit is seeing plenty of young, healthy patients who are extremely ill or dying from COVID-19.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 25, 2021
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey tells NYT he will not run for US Senate
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said he will not make a run for the U.S. Senate in 2022, when Sen. Mark Kelly is up for reelection.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 22, 2021Banner Health Arizona hospitals to cautiously resume elective surgeries
With Arizona’s winter COVID-19 wave receding for the first time in months, Banner Health will cautiously resume elective surgeries.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 22, 2021With supplies limited, Rep. Schweikert turns down vaccine: ‘It felt creepy’
U.S. Rep. David Schweikert of Arizona said he turned down a chance to get vaccinated for COVID-19 because “it felt creepy” to use his position to move to the head of the line.
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ARIZONA NEWS | Jan 22, 2021
Arizona officials approve first licenses for recreational marijuana sales
Arizona officials on Friday approved the first 86 licenses for marijuana dispensaries to sell cannabis to adults for recreational use.