After the state rejected San Simon farmers' push to limit new groundwater irrigation in 2015, AZCIR found more large well applications were filed over the next decade than during the previous 35 years combined. State records now document accelerating groundwater losses, sinking land and permanent damage to the aquifer.

A decade after Arizona rejected San Simon groundwater protections, local farmers try again amid worsening declines is reporting published by Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, Arizona's only nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide investigative reporting.

Election officials and voting rights groups say they are ready to respond to Trump administration interference in the 2026 midterm election.

Threats of ICE at the polls may be a fear tactic. Arizona is preparing anyway. is reporting published by Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, Arizona's only nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide investigative reporting.

With new Medicaid work requirements set to take effect in January, Arizona is attempting to determine which residents qualify for medical exemptions under federal rules that leave key questions unanswered. More than 100,000 Arizonans could face additional barriers to keeping their coverage, and state officials warn the changes will strain healthcare providers and cost millions to implement.

New Medicaid work rules could make it harder for thousands of ‘medically frail’ Arizonans to keep coverage is reporting published by Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, Arizona's only nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide investigative reporting.

Celestin Dima spent more than two years in ICE custody and came within hours of being deported to a country where he had never lived. Now he has won asylum, freeing the African immigrant as courts wrestle with the policies that shaped his case and the government’s expanding use of third-country deportations.

Asylum win caps immigrant’s two-year detention as courts weigh third-country deportations is reporting published by Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, Arizona's only nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide investigative reporting.

More than 60 Arizona workforce programs initially appeared poised to benefit from expanded Pell grants this year. But amid tight timelines and strict federal requirements, just nine were submitted for state review, and three are advancing for federal consideration.

Arizona community colleges lower expectations for Workforce Pell as state approves first programs is reporting published by Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, Arizona's only nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide investigative reporting.

No. The $10.5 million cited by the Department of Justice in its lawsuit against Arizona does not represent tuition savings for undocumented students in a single year or semester. It is based on a calculation using three years of data.

Did undocumented students at ASU receive $10.5 million in reduced tuition last year?  is reporting published by Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, Arizona's only nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide investigative reporting.

Arizona voters narrowly approved Prop. 308 with bipartisan support in 2022, promising in-state tuition to students who had graduated from Arizona high schools after attending for at least two years, regardless of their immigration status. The Trump administration’s lawsuit alleges the voter-backed initiative is “squarely prohibited and preempted by federal law.”

DOJ lawsuit seeks to end in-state tuition for undocumented students is reporting published by Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, Arizona's only nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide investigative reporting.

Arizona voters who haven't used their mail ballots in recent general elections could get kicked off the Active Early Voting List stating in 2027.

Hundreds of thousands of Arizonans could be removed from the mail voting list in 2027 is reporting published by Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, Arizona's only nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide investigative reporting.

At least 120 immigrants were detained for months in Arizona ICE facilities, despite judges barring their deportation home because they would face prosecution or torture, an AZCIR analysis found. Many were held beyond six months as the Trump administration sought to deport them to countries where they had never lived, raising questions about constitutional limits on prolonged detention.

Judges ruled deporting at-risk migrants home could lead to persecution or torture. ICE is detaining them anyway. is reporting published by Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, Arizona's only nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide investigative reporting.

More than 120 immigrants in Arizona detention facilities won protection from deportation to their home countries because they would likely face further prosecution. ICE kept them in custody while searching for a third country to send them to. Here’s how AZCIR conducted the original analysis.

Our methods: Inside our analysis of Arizona habeas corpus cases is reporting published by Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, Arizona's only nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide investigative reporting.