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In a somber press conference held at Nome’s City Hall, Mayor John Handeland recapped the efforts in finding and now recovering the Bering Air Caravan with ten people aboard that went down yesterday,...
While the Coast Guard continued to search Norton Sound for the missing Bering Air plane, Nomeites gathered at Old St. Joe’s at 1 p.m. for an interfaith vigil organized by the City of Nome.
The tone...
UPDATE: NVFD Chief Jim West Jr said the Nome SAR is spooling up to three volunteers and tools to recover the bodies. A Black Hawk is going to fly them out to the wreckage which was reported by the...
In a press briefing at noon put on by the Coast Guard, Assistant Chief of the Office of Incident Management Benjamin McIntyre-Coble said there has been an item of interest identified in the search...
Around 10 a.m. Friday morning, Nome Volunteer Fire Department and Search and Rescue Chief Jim West Jr. gave a quick briefing to the Nugget:
The SAR crew out of Nome made it to Topkok this morning,...
Search efforts continue to find the missing Bering Air Caravan with nine passengers and one pilot aboard. The plane left Unalakleet in the afternoon and did not arrive in Nome. The FAA issued a...
By Laura Robertson
The Alaska Earthquake Center reported 5.0 magnitude earthquake 21 miles south of Little Diomede on Sunday, February 2 around 9 p.m. A second tremor occurred on Monday, Feb. 3...
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...
UPDATE 8:30 a.m.:
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...