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By Julie St. Louis
WILLOW– Under heavy snow showers, 57 dog mushers hit the trail Sunday afternoon for the 48th annual running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race – dubbed as the “last great race on...
The Nome Common Council met Monday evening for a work session and regular meeting and approved six weighty ordinances.
The Council, in second reading, adopted the Remote Sellers Sales Tax Code and...
After a nearly three-hour special emergency meeting of the Nome Common Council On Thursday, due to the COVID-19 threat and the prospect of a large influx of people to Nome for the Iditarod and the...
Washington State’s six deaths from novel coronavirus are also the total number for the USA. Four of the deaths were residents of a nursing home in Kirkland. Washington has 18 confirmed cases. The...
Alaska State Troopers arrested Billy J. Jackson, 23, on February 25, charging him with sexual abuse of a minor in the first degree and assault in the second degree.
Jackson is accused of raping a 7-...
Kirsten Bey, a Nome musher participating in the Serum Run Expedition from Nenana to Nome, was hit by a snow machiner about five miles before they reached Galena, on Sunday, March 1. According to...
The Nome Public Safety Advisory Commission met Saturday to interview the five semi-finalists for the City of Nome’s chief of police position. Four of the candidates were interviewed via video...
An almost complete Nome Common Council – with all present except for councilwoman Jennifer Reader — was all smiles when the first point of order on last Monday’s regular meeting consisted of swearing...
On Thursday, Feb. 20, the ACLU and the law firm Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Miller & Monkman, filed a civil lawsuit on behalf of Clarice Leota Hardy in the United States District Court for Alaska...
For over 25 years, Christmas trees and cutouts of Santa, mermaids, walruses and more have made their way onto the sea ice in front of Nome. As soon as the ice is sufficiently thick and in place, Nome...
