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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. Before her fifth birthday, Rainy had experienced a lifetime of trauma. As an infant, she witnessed violence ...

No. Immigrants in the country illegally are not eligible for Medicaid coverage under the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment ...

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 ...

No. There is no evidence that links the humanitarian aid camp, run by the group No More Deaths, with Mexican cartel trafficking. The group is a ministry of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson, ...

No. There is no evidence that links the humanitarian aid camp, run by the group No More Deaths, with Mexican cartel trafficking. The group is a ministry of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson, ...

Yes. Gov. Hobbs’ administration submitted a report to the Legislature in January estimating that state agencies would need an additional $339 million to maintain operations or programs. These ...

Yes. Gov. Hobbs’ administration submitted a report to the Legislature in January estimating that state agencies would need an additional $339 million to maintain operations or programs. These ...

Yes. Gov. Hobbs’ administration submitted a report to the Legislature in January estimating that state agencies would need an additional $339 million to maintain operations or programs. These ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Only the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, under certain circumstances, can deputize agency ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. A stretch of border barrier constructed in 2022 under then-Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey was later removed ...