Uranium

Navajo Nation officials have agreed to allow shipments of uranium ore to again cross the reservation. It comes after tribal leaders threatened to turn back trucks hauling ore from a mine near the Grand Canyon last summer.

Members of the Navajo Nation will rally at the U.S. Capitol next week to urge Congress to reauthorize a program that compensated people sicked by radiation who lived in a fallout zone or worked at uranium mines.

The story of downwinders — the survivors of the world's first atomic blast and those who helped mine the uranium needed for the nation's arsenal — is little known. But that's changing as the documentary "First We Bombed New Mexico" racks up awards.

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act sunsets on June 10. The Navajo Nation Council is voting on a resolution Monday that would be hand-delivered to U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson.

The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a plan to cleanup a Superfund mine site on the Tohono O’odham Nation that's contaminated the tribe's drinking water with uranium and other pollutants.

Gov. Katies Hobbs addressed the Navajo Nation Council on the first day of its summer session, becoming the first sitting Arizona governor to provide a report during a session.

A bill in the U.S. Senate that would dedicate a hundred million dollars to the cleanup of abandoned uranium mines on tribal lands has passed a key hurdle.

Tribal members and environmental advocates will hold an annual protest Saturday at the site of the only operational uranium mill in the U.S. They’re concerned about its potential impacts to public health and the environment.

The U.S. Geological Survey has released a first-of-its-kind study of uranium levels found in Grand Canyon National Park’s groundwater. It’s part of a long-term effort to try to determine the potential impacts of uranium mining in the area.