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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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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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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 ...
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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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Has the Trump administration offered the University of Arizona funding incentives to scale back DEI, restrict international students and follow its preferred policy agenda?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. In October 2025, the Trump administration issued a memo titled “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher ...
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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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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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Did Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs veto a bill that sought to ban the use of SNAP benefits to buy soda?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. In April, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a bill that sought to prohibit people from using Supplemental ...
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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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Has Arizona identified 50,000 noncitizens for removal from its voter rolls?

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 ...
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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 ...