This project was funded in part by support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. Isaac Contreras lives alone and he says it’s making him sick. He’s got a room and a bathroom to himself, but the ...

Border Patrol in southern Arizona cited more than 100 people for not carrying their immigration documents in 2025 as part of Trump administration efforts to revive decades-old immigration laws.

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 ...

ELFRIDA, Ariz. — Elaine Bailey stood at the microphone at the Sunsites Community Center in southeastern Arizona, voice shaking as she described the massive scale of new agricultural development next ...

This story is a collaboration between the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting and the Texas Observer. It was late afternoon when a small group traveling in a white Ford F-150 approached a ...

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Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. It had been six weeks since Danielle Lerner delivered her second child via cesarean section in April 2019, ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) and Protect America Now are the most ...

SEDONA—Natural light filtered through New Age tapestries covering skylights at the Ultimate Light Mission community center on the outskirts of Sedona, softening the afternoon sun as the woody ...

Denzel Mason was halfway through his Friday shift as an assistant manager at Phoenix Relief Center, a marijuana dispensary in southwest Phoenix, when his phone rang with the news. He had spent much of ...

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 ...

Warnings issued by high-profile civil rights and advocacy groups to Arizona’s governor and attorney general failed to stop a rule change that effectively lowers the bar for extremist organizations ...