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The Nome Common Council welcomed new council member Randy Oles in its regular meeting, held on Tuesday, Oct. 13.
Deputy City Clerk Wali Rana swore in Oles as well as two planning commission members...
By Ariana Crockett O’Harra
“It’s always been what I’ve wanted to do since high school,” said Son Erikson, a newly hired officer at the Nome Police Department. “I’ve always just felt like I wanted...
The Alaska District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is holding a public meeting on Thursday, Oct. 15 in Nome to explain the Environmental Impact Statement process associated with the proposed...
“Always be proud of who you are,” Phyllis Walluk told students gathered in the Nome-Beltz gymnasium during the school’s Indigenous People’s Day celebrations on Monday.
Walluk, the cultural studies...
Over 120 years ago, two Alaska Native children from the Bering Strait region were taken to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, a notorious boarding school. Both died of tuberculosis and were...
The municipal election results for Tuesday, Oct. 6, were a foregone conclusion as none of the seats saw competing candidates, including the separate election for the Nome representative seat on the...
The patience of Nomeites was tried lately as mail, groceries and long-awaited Amazon boxes were slow in arriving in Nome, and by extension in the regional communities.
Starting Wednesday, Alaska...
The Teller Cultural Festival marked its 20th anniversary this year and the round number comes with a sad connotation: the long time organizer Cora Ablowaluk is stepping back, seeking a successor who...
On Tuesday, Oct. 6, Nome voters will be casting their ballots for two Nome Common Council seats, two NJUS board seats and two School Board seats. There is no contested seat in this municipal election...
A conflict of interest question brought efforts to overhaul the City of Nome’s pull-tabs ordinance to a screeching halt as the Nome Common Council was getting ready to vote on it in first reading,...