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HOUSE FIRE–Rosanne Titus’ home caught fire and burned to the ground in the early hours of February 20.
A fire broke out in Mary “Rose Ann” Titus’ home during the early hours of February 20 with Titus, her granddaughter Venessa Koonooka and great-grandson Colton Koonooka-Kowchee inside. They managed to...
Rodney Jones addresses the Nome Common Council in last Monday's meeting.
The Nome Common Council passed in first reading budget amendments for the FY 2025 budgets of various city and port of Nome funds. The proposed amended budget of the city’s general fund brings the...
Cases of the viral infection Hand, Foot and Mouth disease or HFMD, have been detected amongst students of Nome Public Schools. In response, Norton Sound Health Corporation released statements to...
Nome School Board President Darlene Trigg and student council member Angela Omedelina testify in support of HB 69.
Each year the Alaska State Legislature hosts representatives from school districts across the state to hear about the issues schools are facing as they put together their bills that determine how the...
Ice broke off in front of Nome on February 10.
For over a quarter-century, the Nome National Forest sprouted every year as old Christmas trees and wooden cutouts were placed onto the sea ice in front of Nome for months of late winter and spring....
SHOWING SUPPORT— Residents of Noatak join in a prayer circle as a Bering Air plane landed in Noatak. All around the Norton Sound, Bering Strait and Kotzebue regions, people came together to support Bering Air when it resumed operations on Saturday, after a fatal crash of a Bering Air plane on Thursday, Feb. 6 took the lives of nine passengers and the pilot
Ten people died in a plane crash on Thursday, February 6, when a Bering Air Cessna Caravan flying between Unalakleet and Nome went down about 34 miles southwest of Nome. There were no survivors. The...
PRESS CONFERENCE— U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, Senator Lisa Murkowski, Senator Dan Sullivan, Congressman Nick Begich and National Transportation Safety Board Jennifer Homendy held a press conference on Tuesday, Feb. 11, to give updates on the NTSB investigation and discussed aviation safety in Alaska.
An update of the investigation into the Bering Air flight 445 crash was provided during a press conference in Washington D.C. on Tuesday morning, which included Alaska’s congressional delegation...
SILENCE— During their February 10 regular meeting the Nome Common Council bowed their heads in a moment of silence for the lives lost in the Bering Air plane crash February 6.
The Port of Nome expansion project will go out for a new round of bids, albeit the bids will entail a modified design and splitting Phase One into an A and B part. The Phase One A bid is set to open...
The Alaska State Troopers released the names of the ten victims who were on the Bering Air flight from Unalakleet to Nome. The Alaska State Troopers, NTSB, and Alaska National Guard aircraft and...
Senior Aviation Accident Investigator Tim Sorensen and Chair of the National Transportation Security Board Jennifer Homendy during the February 8 press conference in Anchorage.
Chair of the National Transportation Security Board, or NTSB, Jennifer Homendy arrived in Alaska to investigate the fatal crash of the Bering Air flight 445, which went down 34 miles southeast of...

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