Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. In May 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were reportedly stationed in and outside of ...

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 ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Studies have consistently found that American Indians and Alaska Natives are more likely to be diagnosed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dark money and charity organizations led by former intelligence officers and ex-feds have been spreading propaganda and laying the groundwork for presidential election challenges. For a retired ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Before her fifth birthday, Rainy had experienced a lifetime of trauma. As an infant, she witnessed violence ...

Project 2025, a contentious policy blueprint for the next Republican presidency, seeks to dramatically concentrate power in the White House while fundamentally changing how the federal government ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Arizona lawmakers gave the state’s child care system a temporary lifeline this month when they patched up a ...

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, ...

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 ...