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A 15-year-old fisherman is the only survivor of a maritime tragedy involving a crew of three who departed Savoonga in a small fishing vessel on Friday, Sept. 4, and were reported missing on Sunday at...
Just like in 2024, residents of Nome were joined by cruise ship passengers for the Labor Day festivities. At high noon sharp, three teams lined up bathtubs festooned with streamers, ready for the...
On invitation by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the federal entity overseeing the Port of Nome expansion project, City of Nome officials and representatives of the phase 1A contractor Kiewit,...
The candidate list for the 2026 Nome Municipal elections is slim. The filing deadline to declare candidacy ended on Tuesday, Sept. 1 at 5 p.m. and no late filers were seen rushing to City Hall to...
The good news first: all of the hunter-harvested waterfowl and collected eggs that were field-tested earlier this summer tested negative for avian influenza, according to results made public this...
“Frontier town.” That’s how many tourists off the cruise ships from the past few weeks describe Nome. Also on the list is “rustic” and “weatherbeaten.” These tourists aren’t knocking Nome, for what...
In the chaos of ex-typhoon Merbok that hit Nome and the region in September 2022, it escaped most that a special operations command of the military was holding the first iteration of Operation Polar...
Nome Joint Utilities General Manager John Handeland prepared the public for an increase in utility bill costs and the school district for a considerable heating bill, during Monday’s Nome Common...
A bright yellow school bus idled in the Old St. Joe’s parking lot as a crowd of thirty or so eager Nomeites gathered for one of the beloved events in Nome’s summer season – the Nome Garden Tour. But...
Fishing was high on the agenda when the newly appointed chairman of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission Tom Dans visited Nome last week.
Dans, excited to have succeeded in fishing for Arctic...