Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting

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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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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Are refugees eligible for SNAP assistance?

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 ...
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Are all magistrate judges required to have a law degree to be appointed in Arizona?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. A law degree is not required for all magistrate—or municipal—judge appointments in Arizona. City and town ...
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Tag: government shutdown

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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Could more than 900,000 Arizonans lose food assistance on Nov. 1?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Starting Nov. 1, the Arizona Department of Economic Security is set to suspend Supplemental Nutrition ...
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Dozens of people died in Arizona sober living homes as state officials fumbled Medicaid fraud response

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 ...
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Suspending students for absences, tardies compounds learning loss

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. PHOENIX—Guadalupe Hernandez’s attendance problems started in kindergarten. The boy, who has two attention ...
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Groundwater regulation weaknesses exploited by industrial-scale agriculture

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 ...
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Arizona asset seizures net $200M in past five years

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 ...
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‘Sovereign citizen’ filings flood Pima County, parallel national resurgence of controversial movement

A 63-page packet arrived at the Pima County Recorder’s Office in January, postmarked from Texas with unusual formatting identifying the sender: oddly hyphenated names, stray colons and bracketed-off ...
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God-given rights: The nationwide spread of the ‘constitutional sheriff’

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 ...