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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Refugees are no longer eligible for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits following the ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. As of October 2025, Arizona had more than 1.6 million registered Republicans on its voter rolls, a record ...

No. Refugees are no longer eligible for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits following the Nov. 1 implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Civil asset forfeiture laws let Arizona police seize tens of millions of dollars in cash and property each ...

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 ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Against the background hum of the convention center, Dar Leaf settled into a club ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Editor’s note: This article is a collaboration between Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting and KJZZ.