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Scientists from around Alaska gathered in Nome last week to share and discuss their work and to learn from their colleagues in other disciplines.
The 11th annual Western Alaska Interdisciplinary...
A three-percent across the board rate increase again failed to make it into the 2018 Port of Nome Tariff. The Nome Port Commission approved the increase with a vote of 3-2 some weeks ago, but did not...
The former medical director and chief of staff at Nome’s Norton Sound Regional Hospital has taken into court personnel issues that resulted in his demotion and firing after 29 years in top positions...
The 2018 Iditarod came to an end when the last musher, Magnus Kaltenborn and his 13 sled dogs arrived under the Burled Arch on Saturday morning at 11:13 a.m. Kaltenborn finished the race, which took...
Norwegian musher Joar Leifseth Ulsom was the first musher across the Nome finish line at 3 a.m. on Wednesday morning after 9 days and 12 hours on the trail along the southern route of the Iditarod...
Port of Nome administrators continue to apply the spurs to hopes for a deep-draft port in Nome.
Port Director Joy Baker and Mayor Richard Beneville provided testimony to the Legislature on House...
Zachary Milligrock returned to his Diomede home Friday evening to find it ablaze. He found a fire burning between the bedrooms.
“I ran back out, to my neighbors, trying to get a flashlight and a...
Amos Oxereok said he deserved prison for sex abuse of his students. All victims lived in the village where he grew up and went to school. He pleaded guilty to crimes that occurred in 2014.
The...
Last Tuesday, February 20, residents of Little Diomede have seen the impossible. Instead of looking out at a frozen seascape of ice, they witnessed open water and high surf crashing onto the shores...
The Nome Common Council was one vote short of unanimously approving the sale of the former museum and library building on Front Street.
The building is appraised as worth $669,000. The minimum bid...