By Peter Loewi
By Peter Loewi
Still jetlagged, Mark Hayward opened his bag and took out an ammo can stuffed with memorabilia and makeshift battery parts. He then detailed how he, a clinical field instructor for Norton Sound Health Corporation’s Village Health...
By Peter Loewi
One million Americans have died due to COVID-19. This number is roughly the same as San Jose, California, the tenth largest city in the nation. In the year 2020, COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in this country, after...
By Diana Haecker
A grand jury indicted Ryan Okleasik, 31, of Nome on 21 counts, including sexual assault in the first degree, several counts of assault in the first, second and third degree, and coercion.
Okleasik was arraigned last week and...
By Megan Gannon
On Sunday night, a plump ringed seal pup was spotted on the ice in front of Breaker’s Bar on Nome’s Front Street. UAF Alaska Sea Grant agent Gay Sheffield was called and moved the pup to a more secluded beach.
“It was the first...
By Megan Gannon
A highly contagious and lethal new avian influenza strain continues to spread across the U.S. and has been detected in wild birds in Alaska. As spring migration brings wild flocks to the Bering Strait region, residents are...
By Peter Loewi
On May 2, two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters flew to St. Lawrence Island and back. Alaska National Guard director of communications Alan Brown told the Nugget via email that this was part of their annual training, and that “over water...
By Diana Haecker
Last week, Nome Police arrested and charged Isaac Ozenna Sr., 74, of Nome with 31 counts of sexual abuse of minors and coercion, for alleged sexual assaults children, going back more than 30 years, involving six victims.
A grand...
By Peter Loewi
COVID-19 cases in the Nome, Bering Strait and Norton Sound region remain low, but nationally, cases continue to rise.
There are six active cases in the region: two cases in Nome, two cases in White Mountain, one case in Brevig...
By Diana Haecker
Nome Common Council members sitting as the Board of Equalization on Tuesday denied Norton Sound Health Corporation’s appeal of the City Clerk’s ruling that six of NSHC’s properties should be not exempt from the city’s property tax...
