Before her fifth birthday, Rainy had experienced a lifetime of trauma. As an infant, she witnessed violence at home before child welfare authorities intervened and her parents were incarcerated. Night ...

The Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting is the state’s only independent, nonpartisan and collaborative nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide, data-driven investigative reporting. AZCIR’s ...

Photos of 43-year-old Jeffrey Hustito, who died at a sober living home in Glendale, Arizona in 2022. A new law will increase oversight of such facilities. Photo by Adriana Zehbrauskas, special to ...

Though Texas health officials have been unable to pinpoint the source of the measles outbreak that began in a Gaines County Mennonite community, there is no evidence connecting it to illegal ...

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 ...

This story about Arizona’s response to Medicaid fraud was produced by the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, an independent nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide investigative reporting, ...

An “audit” of 2020 election results commissioned by Arizona’s Republican-led Senate in 2021 did not find that then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs inserted fraudulent mail-in ballots into the election ...

Last year, Arizona became the first state in the nation to offer universal school choice for all families. State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other ...

Nearly three years after Arizona uncovered an unprecedented $2.5 billion Medicaid fraud scandal that targeted Indigenous communities, sober living program operators are still recruiting vulnerable ...

Arizona law requires that medical marijuana cardholders be identified in the state’s Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program, a central database for tracking prescriptions. Lawmakers ...

PHOENIX—Guadalupe Hernandez’s attendance problems started in kindergarten. The boy, who has two attention disorders and oppositional defiant disorder, often refused to sit still for circle time. He ...

Though around 450,000 residents have been disqualified from jury duty because of their citizenship status over prior one-year periods, according to California officials, there is no evidence that the ...