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.ProPublica is hiring a Southwest reporter (my team!). questions? lmk: boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/job…

Chris Nanos won the recount by 481 votes azluminaria.org/2024/12/06/chr…

I wonder how this is going to affect the print newspapers in Arizona

The size of the #MMIW crisis in Arizona is documented here by Chelsea. You can help by reading and amplifying her important work.

For the past two years, religious and humanitarian organizations have provided food and aid to migrants at a camp near Sasabe. Just before Donald Trump took office, volunteers were told to clear off federal land. With ProPublica azluminaria.org/2025/02/03/aid…

The state's official museum since 1912, Arizona State Museum on UA campus is in extensive disrepair azluminaria.org/2025/02/11/ari…

More than the “Yes on 414” or “No on 414” signs at every city intersection — here’s what you need to know to vote on the potential sales tax increase: azluminaria.org/2025/02/12/vot…

We spoke with city officials and the police chief, and dug into budgets to help readers understand how TPD is funded, what they do with their money, and what they might do with hundreds of millions more if Prop 414 passes azluminaria.org/2025/02/13/pol…

A Venezuelan woman and two young children were driven away by Border Patrol agents Tuesday. Her family and two other children don’t know where they are. azluminaria.org/2025/02/14/tuc…

A Tucson subcommittee tasked with researching housing solutions is looking to Phoenix, where a city-run campground is offering unhoused residents a space to camp outside azluminaria.org/2025/02/18/tuc…

“You’re seeing in the news, another death at the (jail), and then you see another death, and then one death at the mental health unit. So you’re telling me that’s the best place where he can be right now? But what’s the alternative?” azluminaria.org/2025/02/28/men…

Highlighting FOI Champion Chelsea Curtis this #SunshineWeek! 🌟 An AZLuminaria reporter, Curtis is tracking the missing & murdered Indigenous people crisis through a powerful statewide database. Read her story here: sunshineweek.org/our-right-to-k… International Women's Media Foundation #SunshineWeek #FOIChampion #MMIP

NEW: Arizona SOS Adrian Fontes is discussing with Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes whether to sue, he tells me in an interview. “This is an attempt to federalize elections," Fontes said. "It’s a massive unfunded mandate, and it sets the stage to cancel elections in 2026."

Adelita Grijalva announced her bid for Congressional District 7 on Monday, saying she will resign from the Pima County Board of Supervisors azluminaria.org/2025/03/31/sup…

Emily Pike’s brutal murder has been used to rally support for a new alert system for missing people. But as it’s written, the proposed law — now named in the San Carlos Apache teen’s honor — wouldn’t help in cases like hers bc of its age criteria. shorturl.at/CIWFi

“By the time we learned of her suffering and decline, she looked like a prisoner of war and it was too late to save her.” azluminaria.org/2025/04/28/new…

Lawmakers have amended Arizona’s Turquoise Alert bill — addressing a previous gap in the bill’s language that would’ve excluded Emily Pike, the Indigenous teen it was named after azluminaria.org/2025/05/01/ari… via @azluminaria #MMIP