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Residents work to understand the ongoing impacts of nuclear test fallout and radiated clouds over Idaho decades ago BY: MIA MALDONADO - JANUARY 15, 2024,  https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/01/15/the-fight-isnt-over-idaho-downwinders-persist-after-congress-cuts-compensation-for-them/ For nearly two decades, Tona Henderson collected newspaper articles, letters and photographs documenting who in the small town of Emmett, Idaho, was diagnosed with cancer, including her own family. The result…

When the Idaho Legislature convened on Jan. 8, it did so with a certain level of optimism for the three District 14 representatives of Gem County in the Statehouse. Each

An elderly woman in Gem County has died of the flu, marking the first flu-related death in the county this season and the 12th flu death in Idaho, according to

Tona Henderson is the director of the Idaho Downwinders, a nonprofit that advocates for Idahoans to receive government compensation if they were impacted by nuclear fallout in the mid-20th century.

Americans are typically told the story of the scientists who built the atomic bomb as an intellectual race for the world’s most powerful weapon during wartime. More than 100 atmospheric