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The largest uranium producer in the United States is ramping up work at a mine less than 10 miles from the rim of the Grand Canyon.

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez and 13 other top prosecutors from around the U.S. are uniting in support of efforts to compensate people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing. The letter refers to the estimated half-million people who lived within a 150-mile radius of where the world's first atomic bomb was tested in New Mexico in 1945. It also pointed to thousands in Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Montana and Guam who are currently not eligible under the existing compensation program.

A commission that oversees how the Rio Grande is managed and shared among three Western states has adopted a recommendation that could set the stage for more involvement by Native American tribes that depend on the river.