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Our methods: Arizona’s Hualapai Valley now a ‘de facto transfer basin’ for out-of-state interests

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Previous AZCIR reporting has revealed regulatory weaknesses in how Arizona manages its groundwater, ...
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Arizona’s Hualapai Valley now a ‘de facto transfer basin’ for out-of-state investors and corporate farms

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. When controversial Las Vegas developer Jim Rhodes abandoned plans for a sprawling community near the ...
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Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting

Yes. Starting Nov. 1, the Arizona Department of Economic Security is set to suspend Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) assistance, affecting more than 900,000 Arizonans. Most of the ...
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Have ICE arrests surged in Arizona since Trump took office?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests in Arizona were up 72% in the first half of 2025 compared ...
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Has Arizona slipped from a top state for job growth to one of the lowest-ranked?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Yes. As of June 2025, Arizona ranked 47th in the country for year-to-date job growth — a sharp decline from ...
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Tribal water settlement aims to repair generations of exclusion

Guiding a Toyota pickup along a narrow dirt road south of Second Mesa, rancher Robinson Honani gestures toward a patchwork of farm plots tucked into the dusty terrain of the Hopi Reservation, perched ...
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Director of Arizona Medicaid agency resigns following fraud scheme response

Carmen Heredia resigned this week as director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System ahead of a state Senate confirmation hearing. Republican lawmakers had criticized her response to a ...
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New law increases oversight of Arizona sober living homes

The legislation follows Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica investigations into a $2 billion Medicaid fraud scheme that targeted Native Americans seeking drug and alcohol ...
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Is there evidence linking the Texas measles outbreak to a surge in illegal immigration?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Though Texas health officials have been unable to pinpoint the source of the measles outbreak that began in ...
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Were nearly half a million registered California voters disqualified from jury duty in one year because they were not citizens?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Though around 450,000 residents have been disqualified from jury duty because of their citizenship status ...
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Did the Trump administration fire nearly two dozen immigration judges?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. In mid-February, the Trump administration fired 13 immigration judges who had yet to be sworn in, as well as ...
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Dozens of people died in Arizona sober living homes as state officials fumbled Medicaid fraud response

Arizona officials acknowledged that a fraud scheme targeting Indigenous people with addictions cost taxpayers $2.5 billion. But they haven’t accounted publicly for the number of deaths tied to the ...