Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Before her fifth birthday, Rainy had experienced a lifetime of trauma. As an infant, she witnessed violence ...

Voters in 2024 passed Proposition 139, a constitutional amendment guaranteeing Arizonans the right to abortion, with nearly 62% support statewide. An AZCIR analysis shows Republican lawmakers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This project was funded in part by support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. Isaac Contreras lives alone and he says it’s making him sick. He’s got a room and a bathroom to himself, but the ...

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. It had been six weeks since Danielle Lerner delivered her second child via cesarean section in April 2019, ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) and Protect America Now are the most ...

Rebecca Gau has considered herself a Republican all her life. Raised outside Washington, D.C., during the Reagan era, she embraced the party’s traditional positions of lowering taxes, supporting small ...

This story is a collaboration between the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting and the Texas Observer. It was late afternoon when a small group traveling in a white Ford F-150 approached a ...

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 ...