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Mark Johnson won common council seat F in last Tuesday's runoff election.

Mark Johnson wins city runoff election

Unofficial results of the November 1 municipal runoff election between Nome Common Council seat F incumbent Matt Culley and challenger Mark Johnson suggest that Johnson won by a significant margin....

RIBBON CUTTING— Rep. Neal Foster, left, and Nome Mayor Richard Beneville, right, cut the ribbon at the grand opening ceremony of the Richard Foster Building on Friday, Oct. 28. Looking on are Jimmy Foster, left, Hoa-Nih Foster, right, and Iris Magnell.

Nome celebrates grand opening of Richard Foster Building

As a bona fide fall storm with high winds and gusts peaking at 55 mph ripped through the region, the invited guests to the opening ceremony blew through the glass doors of the newly built Richard...

OLD MUSEUM— The old museum building on Front Street has housed the Carrie M. McLain Memorial Museum and the Kegoayah Kozga Librarty for almost 50 years.

A look back at the Carrie M. McLain Memorial Museum’s past

As a home for thousands of artifacts and decades of history, the Carrie M. McLain Memorial Museum in Nome has made its mark on residents, passersby and tourists throughout the years. Remarkable in...

FIELD HEARING— Dr. Rosita “Kaahani” Worl, of the Sealaska Heritage Institute, Tara Sweeney, executive vice president Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, Susie Silook, ivory carver from St. Lawrence Island and Margaret Williams, managing director Arctic Program for World Wildlife Fund, testified at a field hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Fishers, Water and Wildlife during the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention on Oct. 21.

Confusion over African ivory ban impacts local carvers

Federal laws banning the sale, use or possession of ivory from African elephants are now having a “chilling effect” in the U.S. on Alaska Natives who legally utilize walrus, mammoth and mastodon...

Ninth Circuit Court rules to keep ESA status of Pacific bearded seals

Citing imminent loss of the sea ice it needs to survive, the Ninth Circuit on Monday upheld federal protection of a subspecies of the Pacific bearded seal under the Endangered Species Act. The...

STILL MISSING— Joseph Balderas was reported missing on June 27.

No clues found in fall search for missing Joseph Balderas

Last week, the City of Nome organized a last search effort to look for Joseph Balderas, a Nome man who was reported missing in late June. Extensive searches in June and July have not yielded any...

2016 AFN— A dance group from Minto performed during the Quyana performances at last week’s AFN convention, held in the Carlson Center in Fairbanks.

Alaska Federation of Natives celebrate 50 years

The largest representative annual gathering in the United States of any Native peoples, the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention, commenced on Thursday with a bit of reflection and renewal. This...

Water and sewer rate increase on the way

Nome Common Council Monday evening with a unanimous vote introducing an action that would change Nome ratepayers’ water and sewer bills. If the utility-rate-raising ordinance survives second reading...

The map shows the current sea ice pack edge, pictured in red and orange, still hundreds of miles north of Alaska. The green color depicts sea ice between one and three tenths of an inch in thickness.

Nome breaks two temperature records in October

The start of October has been unseasonably warm for Nome and many areas of western Alaska. Last week, Nome broke two record-high temperatures. Christopher Clarke of the National Weather Service in...

Alexie Morris Jr. was arrested after a month on the run from the law.

Fugitive arrested after aerial and land chase

After nearly a month of evading law enforcement, Alexie Morris Jr., 42, of Nome was apprehended by Alaska State troopers near Cape Nome, after a hunt that involved a Wildlife Trooper Supercub, a...