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Nome’s day shelter opened on Saturday, December 29 so those without the shelter of a home can now get out of the winter cold.
The NEST gives the homeless a place to sleep and now they don’t have to...
January
Wisconsin man paroled from Anvil Mountain, faces extradition
Thirty-four year old Thomas Kehrberg’s parole date was set for January 11 and he was waiting for news on whether Wisconsin would...
A rule against shooting guns and hunting marine mammals in Port of Nome is not necessarily a no-brainer, the Nome Port Commission has found.
The right and desire to gather food from port waters...
We hope you had a Merry Christmas and we wish you a Happy New Year. As is custom, we at the Nugget took a week off and thus there won't be a Nome Nugget edition for December 27, 2018. We are working...
As temperatures in Nome drop into the minus digits, people living on the streets huddle in corners that shelter them from the wind and visit places that will let them inside to warm up. But mostly...
It wasn’t the formal cap-and-gown graduation ceremony for the three nursing students in Nome. That was planned for the weekend at the University of Alaska Anchorage, along with other winter graduates...
Frank R. Johnson, 39, has been sentenced to 60 years flat time after he pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of a Nome police officer.
Officer Casey Johnson, no relations to the defendant,...
The Council unanimously passed a resolution alerting the state Dept. of Transportation and Public Facilities Commissioner John McKinnon and Gov. Mike Dunleavy to the emerging situation with the east-...
Amber Danae Otton and Jared Michael Miller were married on August 18, 2018 in Nome, Alaska at their parent’s Nuuk campsite officiated by Jared’s father David Miller. The bride is the daughter of...
Days after the Nov. 30 earthquake shook Anchorage and the Mat-Su area at a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter scale, state and federal agencies as well as homeowners are assessing the damage to...