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On Monday, President Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of 44 million acres of the Northern Bering Sea from federal oil and gas leasing.
Using a section of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act,...
It’s the turn of the New Year and there’s barely any snow on the ground. Nome did not get a white Christmas this year. The tundra is brown instead of slumbering under a blanket of white snow.
The...
Nome’s business as usual came to a standstill last week as days of unusual warmth and rain had people reaching for their ice cleats as sidewalks and roads turned into slick ice.
Keeping a car from...
Christmas time is here. Throughout the region, communities get together to celebrate the spirit of the season and to engage in weeklong community games and traditional races.
The Nome Nugget called...
The annual Arctic Report Card released this week revealed unsettling findings of the current state of the Arctic as scientists reported that the Arctic transitions from a carbon sink to a carbon...
The Nome Common Council signed off on a three-year collective bargaining agreement with the City of Nome Employees Association, which will raise wages by 8.2 percent in 2025, 3 percent in 2026 and 4...
Three months has come and gone, and Interim City Manager Brooks Chandler is packing his bags to leave Nome, he hopes better than he found it. Chandler stepped in the role temporarily after former...
A federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment charging Matthew Jackson, 22, of Shaktoolik with cyberstalking adults and children and sexually exploiting children to produce and possess child...
On a Thursday evening last week, a dozen people in bright yellow vests filed into the Fire Hall building on Bering Street. It was volunteers for the Bering Sea Lions Club, the Nome branch of an...
The delay of the Port of Nome expansion project due to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ cancellation of the bidding process in October has created an opportunity for the City: some of the money...