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 ...

No. While 19 state attorneys general, including Arizona’s Kris Mayes, filed a lawsuit challenging a recent executive order involving election reforms, the lawsuit makes no attempt to establish ...

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 ...

Yes. A stretch of border barrier constructed in 2022 under then-Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey was later removed following pushback from the federal government. The barrier, assembled using shipping ...

The Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting is an independent, nonprofit media organization dedicated to statewide accountability journalism in Arizona. Explore this page to read AZCIR's extensive ...

By Alfredo Corchado, Puente News Collaborative; Edited by Ricardo Sandoval-Palos. Arvin West is the iconic borderland sheriff in far-west Texas’ deeply rural Hudspeth County. His distinctive drawl and ...

Prior to becoming CEO, Homan had already participated in America Project events: In January 2023, he appeared alongside Arizona state Rep. Steve Montenegro, who had been serving as the America Project ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Vice President Kamala Harris has not announced a plan to shut down all Pregnancy Resource Centers (PRCs) if ...

No. Arizona's voter roll maintenance procedures include processes for verifying citizenship. There is no evidence to suggest that non-citizens remain on voter rolls, and non-citizen voting in the ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Though the number of homes available in the metro Phoenix area has increased year over year, more inventory ...