Linda Evers News Today

Young members of a church held a walk to tackle loneliness in their local community.

Linda Evers, 64, says her life veered off track after a serious fall in 2017 left her with crippling anxiety and depression. She stopped driving, started using a walker and stopped going out in public, leaving her sad and isolated. But, the Dallas, Georgia, woman says she found help from TMS, or transcranial magnetic stimulation.

A mining company and government agencies repeatedly said they’d clean up waste in Homestake, New Mexico. Instead, they’re buying out homeowners.

The “death map” tells the story of decades of sickness in the small northwest New Mexico communities of Murray Acres and Broadview Acres. Turquoise arrows point to homes where residents had thyroid disease, dark blue arrows mark cases of breast cancer, and yellow arrows mean cancer claimed a life. Neighbors built the map a decade ago after watching relatives and friends fall ill and die. Dominating the top right corner of the map, less than half a mile from the cluster of colorful arrows, ...

Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. It didn’t happen. Now they’re trying a new tactic: buying out homeowners to avoid finishing the job.

A small community in New Mexico struggles with the long-term health effects related to Cold War-era uranium mining

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act has failed to justly compensate Navajo communities affected by nuclear testing.