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As a bona fide fall storm with high winds and gusts peaking at 55 mph ripped through the region, the invited guests to the opening ceremony blew through the glass doors of the newly built Richard...
As a home for thousands of artifacts and decades of history, the Carrie M. McLain Memorial Museum in Nome has made its mark on residents, passersby and tourists throughout the years. Remarkable in...
Federal laws banning the sale, use or possession of ivory from African elephants are now having a “chilling effect” in the U.S. on Alaska Natives who legally utilize walrus, mammoth and mastodon...
Citing imminent loss of the sea ice it needs to survive, the Ninth Circuit on Monday upheld federal protection of a subspecies of the Pacific bearded seal under the Endangered Species Act.
The...
Last week, the City of Nome organized a last search effort to look for Joseph Balderas, a Nome man who was reported missing in late June.
Extensive searches in June and July have not yielded any...
The largest representative annual gathering in the United States of any Native peoples, the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention, commenced on Thursday with a bit of reflection and renewal. This...
Nome Common Council Monday evening with a unanimous vote introducing an action that would change Nome ratepayers’ water and sewer bills.
If the utility-rate-raising ordinance survives second reading...
The start of October has been unseasonably warm for Nome and many areas of western Alaska. Last week, Nome broke two record-high temperatures.
Christopher Clarke of the National Weather Service in...
After nearly a month of evading law enforcement, Alexie Morris Jr., 42, of Nome was apprehended by Alaska State troopers near Cape Nome, after a hunt that involved a Wildlife Trooper Supercub, a...
Four representatives of GraphiteOne Resources traveled to Nome, Brevig Mission and Teller in early October to meet with community leaders and to announce the impending release of a preliminary...