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The Alaska State Troopers released the names of the ten victims who were on the Bering Air flight from Unalakleet to Nome. The Alaska State Troopers, NTSB, and Alaska National Guard aircraft and...
Senior Aviation Accident Investigator Tim Sorensen and Chair of the National Transportation Security Board Jennifer Homendy during the February 8 press conference in Anchorage.
Chair of the National Transportation Security Board, or NTSB, Jennifer Homendy arrived in Alaska to investigate the fatal crash of the Bering Air flight 445, which went down 34 miles southeast of...
The City of Nome held a press conference after the wreckage of the Bering Air plane was located on the sea ice 34 miles southeast of Nome.
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,...
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...
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...
Alexandria Okpealuk is deep in prayer.
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...
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...

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