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It’s been almost 20 days since the Quintillion fiber optic cable was scoured by ice resulting in slow or no internet in communities across western and northwestern Alaska, with repairs not possible...
The Serum Run Centennial brought a spotlight on Nome once again as news outlets nationwide and even internationally recapped the anniversary of the historic mush across interior Alaska to bring the...
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Last night the U.S. Coast Guard and Air Force sent C-130 planes to search the area between White Mountain and Cape Nome and over the sea ice between Unalakleet and Cape Nome. They...
Last week’s Strait Science presentation, a series of lectures presented by Northwest Campus and Alaska Sea Grant to promote understanding between citizens of the Bering Strait region and the...
It’s been over a week since the Quintillion fiber optic cable was severed below the sea ice over 30 miles North of Oliktok Point. Despite the spotty service, Nome carries on, as telecommunications...
The Serum Run centennial celebration is here and Nome as well as Nenana are hosting events in honor of the historic event that commemorates the transport of lifesaving diphtheria serum run by relay...
The Nome Common Council spent most of its short meeting on Monday discussing the ask of the Nome School District to pre-fund upgrades to the entrances at Nome-Beltz and the Nome Elementary School for...
“With the arrival of Gunnar Kaasen on Monday morning with the package containing 300,000 units of diphtheria antitoxin a great strain was lifted from the minds of many of the population of Nome,”...
Eighteen events and eight talks are scheduled to take place during the next week’s anniversary celebration to honor the mushers, dogs, medical personnel, and decision-makers involved in the heroic...
On Saturday morning, the Quintillion subsea fiberoptic cable broke, leaving Nome and many other western and northwestern Alaska communities without internet. This is the second major network outage...