The Iron Mountain High School Drama Club will present “Radium Girls” at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 15-16, in the auditorium. This powerful, moving drama tells the true story of the “shining girls ...

In an intimate room, standing before an audience on a jutted stage, young clock-dial painters splatter radium paint on each ...

It's finally safe to drink the water in the small Douglas County community of Louviers after six years of dealing with radium ...

The Renner Theater presents 'Radium Girls,' a play exploring the true story of women fighting for justice after radium ...

It may be 2017, but working women are still facing many of the same issues that have been plaguing them for decades: sexism, unequal pay, misogyny, sexual harassment, and more. And while these issues ...

This 1921 ad touts the “power” of radium. This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. The harmful effects ...

Salesmen (and the press) learned that tonics labeled ”radium,” once the most expensive substance on Earth, flew off the shelves. Meanwhile, scientists scrambled to learn what the radioactive material ...

Mrs. Josie Bishop is a small, bright, sun-browned widow with four grown children. Twenty years ago she moved to California’s Mojave Desert from New Mexico, arriving with “a can of beans, a loaf of ...

It’s taken them nearly a century, but "Radium Girls” will have their story told on the big screen. A group of young women who were pioneers in the fight for workplace safety and public health are at ...

Neighbors in the small Douglas County community of Louviers can finally put their water worries downstream. After 6 years of ...