- The director of the Montezuma County Public Health Department is encouraging residents to reconsider their holiday plans this year as the recent surge of Covid-19 continues.
- The U.S. House race for the district covering most of northern Arizona has been called for Democratic incumbent Tom O’Halleran.
Austin Cope is a former Morning Edition host for KSJD and now produces work on a freelance basis for the station. He grew up in Cortez and hosted a show on KSJD when he was 10 years old. After graduating from Montezuma-Cortez High School in 2010, he lived in Belgium, Ohio, Spain, northern Wyoming, and Himachal Pradesh, India before returning to the Cortez area. He has a degree in Politics from Oberlin College in Ohio.