This story was a collaboration between St. Louis Public Radio and the Belleville News-Democrat. Along the border of Venice and Madison in the metro-east, a 1.4 million-square-foot factory and former ...

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., sent a "Dear Colleague" letter Monday ahead of the government funding deadline later this week urging Republicans to reauthorize the federal radiation compensation policy. The ...

A sign identifies a repository near Edgemont where 4 million tons of radioactive tailings from a former uranium mill have been buried since the 1980s. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight) The ...

Sheron Carter’s brother and grandfather died from cancer after working at the Nevada Test Site. Three years ago, the 66-year-old Las Vegas native was diagnosed with breast cancer. Now, she’s demanding ...

Legislation to expand a program that compensates people who got sick after experiencing atomic radiation from nuclear bomb tests or uranium mining could have a new chance at passage, but Sen. Ben Ray ...

The U.S. Senate has endorsed a major expansion of a compensation program for people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing and the mining of uranium during the Cold War, with ...

We’re hoping to speak to people who have filed a claim through the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. We want to know what the experience was like. By Catie Edmondson Catie Edmondson, who covers ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It’s been a long time coming in the fight for to compensate more people sickened by radiation exposure in the name of national security in the U.S. No one knows that better than ...

Several months after the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act was expanded to include 21 Missouri ZIP codes, the Justice Department reports that $8.57 million worth of claims have been approved for ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – US Senators Ben Ray Lujan and Martin Heinrich have asked congress to extend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. The act set to expire in July provides financial compensation ...

SANTA FE, N.M. >> The U.S. Senate has endorsed a major expansion of a compensation program for people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing and the mining of uranium during ...