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By Megan Gannon
For those living in the Bering Sea region, the trends explained in the latest Arctic Report Card won’t come as a surprise. There’s more rain, higher temperatures and less sea ice....
By Diana Haecker
At last Monday’s regular Nome Common Council meeting City Manager Glenn Steckman announced the mechanism through which the city will disperse a one-time NSEDC fuel subsidy to...
By Megan Gannon
Last week a musk ox gored Shawn Pomrenke’s 10-year-old Malamute named Kona outside of his family’s man camp near the Old Glacier Creek Road.
Pomrenke told the Nugget that Kona had...
By Megan Gannon
On December 1, the Dunleavy administration rolled out changes to Medicaid coverage for dental services in Alaska that some practitioners fear will lead to delays in treatment for...
Alaska State Troopers said on Tuesday that Curtis Worland, a Court Service Officer for the Nome AST post, was killed by a musk ox in the afternoon.
Trooper spokesperson Austin McDaniel said that...
By Diana Haecker
The Nome Common Council last week passed a resolution that allows the City to enter into a memorandum of understanding with Nome’s liquor package stores with the stated goal to curb...
By Diana Haecker
A week of several freeze and thaw cycles left Nome and the region with puddles on ice and scenes that look more like breakup in spring rather than the customary snowy landscape of...
By Megan Gannon
Hundreds of Nomeites and visitors from the surrounding villages packed into the Nome Recreation Center for the first Firemen’s Carnival since 2019.
Kids stood in line for face-...
By Megan Gannon
In November 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden signed a historic bill allocating $1.2 trillion for infrastructure projects nationwide. Slowly over the last year, new details about how...
By Peter Loewi
Following the November 23 tabulation of the ranked-choice votes, Lisa Murkowski and Mary Peltola both won reelection to Congress, both with around 54 percent of the final vote....
