EDITOR’S NOTE: This episode originally aired on November 30, 2025. A recent report indicates that Idaho downwinders stricken with cancer can now get federal compensation. Last week, the Idaho ...

One year ago, Congress let a federal program end that compensated people who grew sick from mining uranium for nuclear weapons or from living downwind of nuclear weapons tests. In those 12 months, ...

SALT LAKE CITY — One year to the day since federal lawmakers let compensation for downwinders expire, advocates say they feel more optimistic than they have in months about getting an expansion of the ...

BOISE (Idaho Statesman) — Mary Alice Glen was 37 years old when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996. Years earlier, her mother died from ovarian cancer. One of her sisters had breast cancer.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at the Trinity Test Site near Alamagordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. The ...

Now that Congress has reauthorized and expanded the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to cover all of Utah for people who developed serious illnesses from nuclear weapons testing, a St. George ...

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) is closer to being reauthorized and expanded after being included in a Senate spending package. RECA provides payments to individuals affected by nuclear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sign identifies a repository near Edgemont where 4 million tons of radioactive tailings from a former uranium mill have been ...