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Eighteen events and eight talks are scheduled to take place during the next week’s anniversary celebration to honor the mushers, dogs, medical personnel, and decision-makers involved in the heroic...
On Saturday morning, the Quintillion subsea fiberoptic cable broke, leaving Nome and many other western and northwestern Alaska communities without internet. This is the second major network outage...
In its first meeting this year, the Nome Common Council breezed through an varied agenda, full of issues to be tackled in the year ahead.
While the City is still looking for a permanent City Manager...
It’s a new year, and, for Polar Enterprises, a new era. Though everything may have appeared business as usual to regulars, Sunday, January 5 marked the transfer of ownership to Mymy and Larry St....
While the ball was dropping in Times Square, Nome welcomed in the New Year—or at least, waved goodbye to the old one—with fireworks.
Cars filled up parking lots and roads between the small boat...
On Monday, President Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of 44 million acres of the Northern Bering Sea from federal oil and gas leasing.
Using a section of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act,...
It’s the turn of the New Year and there’s barely any snow on the ground. Nome did not get a white Christmas this year. The tundra is brown instead of slumbering under a blanket of white snow.
The...
Nome’s business as usual came to a standstill last week as days of unusual warmth and rain had people reaching for their ice cleats as sidewalks and roads turned into slick ice.
Keeping a car from...
Christmas time is here. Throughout the region, communities get together to celebrate the spirit of the season and to engage in weeklong community games and traditional races.
The Nome Nugget called...
The annual Arctic Report Card released this week revealed unsettling findings of the current state of the Arctic as scientists reported that the Arctic transitions from a carbon sink to a carbon...