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Even if farmers’ second attempt to limit agricultural expansion succeeds, the restrictions won't reduce existing pumping. ‘All we can do is keep it from getting worse,’ one local grower told @BCDerr.
AZ farmers tried to limit new irrigation in the San Simon Valley a decade ago. The state said no.
Since then, applications for large-scale wells have surged, groundwater declines have worsened & parts of the valley have sunk nearly 7 ft.
Read our latest: azcir.org/news/2026/10/21/sa…
AZ farmers tried to limit new irrigation in the San Simon Valley a decade ago. The state said no.
Since then, applications for large-scale wells have surged, groundwater declines have worsened & parts of the valley have sunk nearly 7 ft.
Read our latest: azcir.org/news/2026/10/21/sa…
Election observer trainings. Legal reviews. Tabletop simulations.
Across Arizona, officials and voting rights groups are preparing for potential ICE activity at or near polling places in November.
Read the latest from our partners at @VotebeatUS: azcir.org/news/2026/10/20/ic…
'Even if you have cancer, that doesn’t necessarily exempt you from having to work,' said Amy Taylor, CEO of Mariposa Community Health Center in Nogales. 'You have to be sick enough with that cancer to be exempt.'
Having a serious medical condition may not be enough to qualify for an exemption from new Medicaid work requirements. A new federal rule adds another hurdle for patients—and potentially millions in costs for Arizona.
Read the latest from @JasmineADemers: azcir.org/news/2026/10/15/me…
Having a serious medical condition may not be enough to qualify for an exemption from new Medicaid work requirements. A new federal rule adds another hurdle for patients—and potentially millions in costs for Arizona.
Read the latest from @JasmineADemers: azcir.org/news/2026/10/15/me…
NEW: Celestin Dima fled anti-gay persecution in Burkina Faso, then spent 2+ years in ICE detention despite being protected from deportation there.
Now, he's won asylum, and the legal landscape that kept him in limbo is shifting—but not without a fight: azcir.org/news/2026/10/06/ic…
Expanded Pell grants promised to make short-term workforce training more affordable for Arizona students. But of 60+ programs schools initially thought could benefit this year, just three are advancing.
@molboha reports on what got in the way: azcir.org/news/2026/09/22/ar…
The DOJ suit against AZ cited our reporting on the state's implementation of Prop. 308, which allows undocumented students to get in-state tuition.
But in using AZCIR's work to calculate the law’s financial impact, the DOJ got an important detail wrong: azcir.org/news/2026/08/28/di…
Several news organizations covering the lawsuit have since repeated the DOJ’s characterization of AZCIR’s findings. We want to clarify the record for our readers—and for others relying on our reporting.
More on this from our exec editor: mailchi.mp/azcir.org/prop-30…
We previously reported that fewer undocumented students than anticipated were receiving reduced tuition under Prop. 308, largely due to its disjointed implementation. Now, the DOJ is suing AZ, saying the policy is unlawful regardless of how many benefited: azcir.org/news/2026/08/27/do…
Read the latest story published through our partnership with @VotebeatUS!
'The pool of voters that could be impacted by this is an order of magnitude larger than in some ... other states,' one expert told @SashaHupka.
More on the hundreds of thousands of Arizonans who could be removed from the state's mail voting list in 2027: azcir.org/news/2026/08/26/ar…
'The pool of voters that could be impacted by this is an order of magnitude larger than in some ... other states,' one expert told @SashaHupka.
More on the hundreds of thousands of Arizonans who could be removed from the state's mail voting list in 2027: azcir.org/news/2026/08/26/ar…
'They were detained simply because the government felt it could detain (them), and they weren’t being challenged on it.'
Our analysis found 120+ immigrants whom ICE continued to hold in AZ after judges barred deportation to their home countries. ICYMI: azcir.org/news/2026/08/20/ce…
Judges ruled that deporting these immigrants to their home countries could expose them to torture or persecution.
ICE detained them anyway—in some cases for over a year—while searching for other countries that would take them.
Read our latest: azcir.org/news/2026/08/20/ce…
Arizona authorized secure treatment for its sickest psychiatric patients in 2019. But the effort repeatedly stalled, leaving many rotating through costly, short-term interventions.
Published as part of @CarterCenter's Mental Health Parity Collaborative. tinyurl.com/3etdnztv
In 2019, Arizona lawmakers authorized secure residential facilities for people with serious mental illness who repeatedly cycle through hospitals, homelessness and jail.
Seven years later, the facilities still don’t exist.
azcir.org/news/2026/08/13/de…
ICYMI: A lawsuit brought by two out-of-state investment firms could make it harder for AZ to protect vulnerable groundwater basins. It’s already complicating decisions in other threatened aquifers.
azcir.org/news/2026/08/06/hu…
NEW: A lawsuit brought by two out-of-state investment firms could make it harder for AZ to protect vulnerable groundwater basins.
The case centers on the Hualapai Valley, where outside agricultural interests control virtually all of the basin's farmland. azcir.org/news/2026/08/06/hu…
ICYMI: @ArizCIR's @molboha appeared on @azpbs last week to discuss her latest story on Arizona's yearslong, multimillion-dollar effort to get more students to continue their education after high school—only to see enrollment decline: youtu.be/PrfFwL5zyNI?si=ZSse…
Listen to (or read) the full interview here: kjzz.org/the-show/2026-07-09…
AZ has spent years & millions of dollars trying to get more students to continue their education after high school. So why are fewer students enrolling? Tune in to @kjzzphoenix 's The Show this AM at 9 to hear @ArizCIR's @molboha discuss her latest story: kjzz.org/