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A Coast Guard helicopter returns to Nome around 1 pm on Friday afternoon.
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...
A Coast Guard helicopter flies over Nome, on Friday, shortly after 1 p.m.
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...
A Bering Air plane flying a grid search this morning.
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,...
NVFD Chief Jim West Jr.
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...
LITTLE DIOMEDE— Some residents of Little Diomede felt the 5.0 earthquake on Sunday night. Worries are that other seasons the tremors could loosen rocks and boulders above the community and fall on homes.
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...
DOG TIME— Nomeites and visitors ran out to pet and take photos with the dogs who mushed in from Safety on Sunday February 2.
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...
Nome first responders gathered at Nome Fire Hall to organize the response to a missing airplane in the area.
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...
ZOOMED IN— Colonel Patrick Collins of United States Special Operations Command North spoke to the region in a Strait Science on January 23. Collins discussed the training exercise Operation Polar Dagger, held in the Bering Sea.
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...
FIBER CUT— Quintillion determined through imaging and analysis an ice scour caused the fiber optic cable break approximately 32-37 miles north of Oliktok Point.
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...

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