Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting

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

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 ...
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Arizona’s Hualapai Valley now a ‘de facto transfer basin’ for out-of-state investors and corporate farms

Since 2014, an influx of out-of-state interests have drilled nearly 200 agricultural wells in Mohave County’s Hualapai Valley groundwater basin, straining the aquifer and putting residential water ...
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Arizona colleges face ‘devastating impact’ after Trump slashes grant funds to minority-serving institutions

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Ten community colleges and universities in Arizona will lose at least $13 million after President Donald ...
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Arizona’s community health centers were built on Medicaid. Now they face uncertainty

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 ...
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Does Arizona universally allow abortion up to birth?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Arizona law generally permits abortion up to fetal viability — the point at which a fetus could likely ...
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Amid student fear and uncertainty, Arizona colleges split on clear policies for ICE on campus

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. In January 2025, Arizona State University junior Britney Vera scrolled past a social media post she thought ...
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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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Did the Biden Administration redirect Social Security funds to support unauthorized immigrants?

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 ...
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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 ...
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The Border Propagandist

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Jaeson Jones is trained as a cop—not a journalist. Yet the 51-year-old holds a lucrative correspondent ...