Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. In February 2025, the University of Arizona approved an $870,000, five-year contract with Flock Safety to ...

To better understand the scope and scale of foreign ownership, and the role these entities have played in the area’s recent surge of industrial-scale agriculture, AZCIR spent several months analyzing ...

Out-of-state investors and industrial-scale agriculture businesses have poured millions into deep wells and water-intensive nut orchards in Arizona’s Mohave County, betting on the state’s unregulated ...

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 ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. When 35-year-old Jessica Rhodes walked into a residential treatment program in Phoenix three months ago, she ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. In July 2025, Arizona water officials approved a transportation order allowing Buckeye and Queen Creek to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. There is no evidence that 90% of asylum claims are fraudulent. While estimates for the number of asylum ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Though Arizona has approximately 50,000 registered voters who haven’t submitted the documents required to ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. There is no evidence that funds from the Social Security Administration were redirected to support ...