Navajo uranium mining

Arizona tribal members are in Washington, D.C., this week to urge Congress to reauthorize the compensation programs for victims of nuclear testing and uranium mining.

A top Democratic congressman says it will take a power shift to pass legislation to extend and expand a compensation program for people exposed to radiation following uranium mining and nuclear testing carried out by the federal government.

Officials from the Navajo Nation and the federal government are taking a closer look at more than a dozen former uranium mines on the reservation. The…

About a quarter of Navajo women and some infants who were part of a federally funded study on uranium exposure had high levels of the radioactive metal in…