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Sanitation Salvage Ordered to Halt Trash Collections
by Kiera Feldman The agency that oversees New York’s private trash industry ordered Sanitation Salvage, one of the city’s largest haulers, to halt operations, saying the company poses “an imminent...
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How the Trump Administration Went Easy on Small-Town Police Abuses
by Ian MacDougall On a chilly morning in December 2016, 12-year-old Bobby Lewis found himself sitting in a little room at the police station in Ville Platte, a town of 7,300 in southern Louisiana. He...
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How Do We Verify Anonymous Sources?
by Jason Grotto At the beginning of the year, we asked ProPublica Illinois readers what they wanted to know about how we do our work. Thoughtful, challenging questions have been rolling in ever since,...
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Embattled Garbage Hauler Co-Owns Dump With Person Expelled From Trash...
by Kiera Feldman On Friday, the agency that oversees New York City’s commercial trash industry suspended the license of Sanitation Salvage, saying the Bronx company posed an “imminent danger to life...
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Nuclear Safety Board Slams Energy Department Plan to Weaken Oversight
by Rebecca Moss, Santa Fe New Mexican A new Department of Energy order that could be used to withhold information from a federal nuclear safety board and prevent the board from overseeing worker...
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Natural Gas Industry Again Beats a Tiny West Virginia County That Wanted to...
by Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette-Mail A West Virginia county, whose elected leaders have vocally resisted natural gas industry operations, has again been told by a federal judge that it must...
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Senators Seek Answers From HUD About Public Housing Crisis in East St. Louis
by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan Illinois’ Democratic senators are asking the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to detail what steps the agency is taking to address problems...
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Marines Move to Tackle Racial Extremists in the Corps
by Rahima Nasa The United States Marine Corps has taken steps to combat racial extremists in its ranks, issuing an updated order emphasizing that participation in white supremacist and other groups is...
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New Mexico Senators Speak Out Over Order They Say Would Hamper Nuclear Safety...
by Rebecca Moss, Santa Fe New Mexican New Mexico’s senators are asking Congress to block a Department of Energy order that would limit a federal board’s access to information about nuclear facilities...
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Why Trump Should Have Read “Ask ProPublica Illinois” Before He Tweeted
by ProPublica We don’t think President Donald Trump reads ProPublica Illinois. But, well, maybe he should. On Wednesday, the president issued a pair of tweets warning about the media’s use of...
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From Ministry to Muckraking: The Biblical Basis for Investigative Reporting
by Marshall Allen More than a dozen years ago I was a finalist for a reporting job at a small newspaper. All I needed to do was survive an interview with the top editor. The other editors warned me,...
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Prominent Houston Judge Quits St. Luke’s Board After Heart Transplant...
by Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica A prominent federal judge quietly resigned from the board of directors at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center this year after the...
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The Imam’s Widow
by Rahima Nasa Every night, Alauddin Akonjee set the alarm clock in the bedroom of his home in Ozone Park, Queens, fearful he wouldn’t wake in time for morning prayer. And each morning, he and his...
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Why Am I Seeing This? Interesting Facebook Ads From Our Political Ad Collector
by Jeremy B. Merrill These ads are collected from participants in our Political Ad Collector project. If you want to help us by submitting the ads you see to our collection, join the project. It's...
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At Hearing for Bronx Trash Hauler, More Questions About Safety and Oversight
by Kiera Feldman Given the exhausting nature of commercial driving, federal authorities have basic safety protocols to protect workers and the public. The law limits drivers’ hours and requires...
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How the Army Corps’ Hesitation Nearly Destroyed a City
by Al Shaw and Lisa Song, ProPublica, and Patrick Michels, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting See the map.
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There Was a Plan to Save This City From Flooding. But When the Rains Came, So...
by Lisa Song, ProPublica, and Patrick Michels, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting In the last days of April 2011, the mayor of Cairo, Illinois, told residents to get out. A spring...
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As Months Pass in Chicago Shelters, Immigrant Children Contemplate Escape,...
by Melissa Sanchez, Duaa Eldeib and Jodi S. Cohen One 16-year-old from Guatemala said he wanted to “quitarme la vida,” or “take my life away,” as he waited to be released from a Chicago shelter for...
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Did Three Immigrant Teens Run Away From a Chicago Shelter Last Month?
by Melissa Sanchez, Jodi S. Cohen and Duaa Eldeib Get Email Updates from ProPublica Illinois Discover what makes Illinois tick from our team of investigative journalists covering the state. Delivered...
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“Bombs in Our Backyard” Wins SEJ’s Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding...
by ProPublica The Society of Environmental Journalists announced today that the ProPublica project “Bombs in Our Backyard” is the inaugural winner of its Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding...
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