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Arizona universities quietly altered DEI offerings after Trump threatened funding cuts. They won’t disclose how

Arizona’s three public universities have quietly dismantled diversity, equity and inclusion offerings over the past year, renaming programs, consolidating resource centers and scrubbing websites—all ...
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Will Ripsey Wash in Pinal County be turned into a tailings storage location for mining waste?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved a project by ASARCO (American Smelting and Refining Company), a ...
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Border Patrol now targeting legal immigrants for ‘carry your papers’ law in southern Arizona

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. For the first time in Arizona, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are using a Cold War-era law to ...
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Is Arizona home to thousands of volcanoes?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Yes. Arizona has thousands of extinct volcanoes across seven volcanic fields. The San Francisco Volcanic ...
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Medicaid fraud targeting Indigenous communities continues despite AHCCCS reforms

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 ...
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Despite broad support for abortion access in their districts, GOP lawmakers push new restrictions

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 ...
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Could a new Tucson ordinance allow police to arrest people for being unhoused?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Tucson’s new drug-loitering ordinance does not authorize police to arrest someone based on housing status.
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Arizona’s Hualapai Valley now a ‘de facto transfer basin’ for out-of-state investors and corporate farms

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. When controversial Las Vegas developer Jim Rhodes abandoned plans for a sprawling community near the ...
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Tag: food benefits

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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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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Amid student fear and uncertainty, Arizona colleges split on clear policies for ICE on campus

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. In January 2025, Arizona State University junior Britney Vera scrolled past a social media post she thought ...
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Was a Marana prison sold to a private company that runs ICE facilities?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. In July 2025, Arizona sold a former Marana prison to Management & Training Corporation (MTC). The company ...