LUCHA staff handed out informational pamphlets at an election observer training in Phoenix on Oct. 7, 2026. This year, observers will be watching for potential federal interference at the polls, ...

ELFRIDA, Ariz. — Elaine Bailey stood at the microphone at the Sunsites Community Center in southeastern Arizona, voice shaking as she described the massive scale of new agricultural development next ...

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 ...

There is no evidence that 90% of asylum claims are fraudulent. While estimates for the number of asylum applications granted in recent years vary widely — from 20-50% — suspected fraud accounts for a ...

Panicked calls flooded the 911 dispatch center in Amarillo, Texas around 9 a.m. on March 21, 2023. Witnesses described a man in overalls and a green T-shirt pointing a rifle at motorists southwest of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Guiding a Toyota pickup along a narrow dirt road south of Second Mesa, rancher Robinson Honani gestures toward a patchwork of farm plots tucked into the dusty terrain of the Hopi Reservation, perched ...

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 ...