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Mine site plan
On April 23, Graphite One Inc. released the feasibility study for the planned graphite mine on the Seward Peninsula. With the study complete, the Canadian mining company can now begin the process of...
The Nome Public Schools Board of Education passed the FY26 budget tonight in a special session.
Despite a potential large reduction in funding from the city, the Nome Public Schools Board of Education approved the final budget for the 2025-2026 school year of $ 18.5 million, during a Tuesday...
PRESENT— With a uniquely Nome-sense of humor, Nome Mayor John Handeland gifted Senator Lisa Murkowski with an oosik, the private parts of a male walrus, as an appropriate tool to take back to Congress.
An illustrious line-up of speakers attracted a large audience as the City of Nome held its first Investment Summit on Friday, April 18 at Old St. Joe’s to discuss the future of Nome in light of a...
Senator Murkowski, pictured here at the Nome Investment Summit on April 18, 2025.
Senator Lisa Murkowski, (R-Alaska) attended the City of Nome’s Investment Summit on Friday, holding a keynote address and making time for an interview with The Nome Nugget. Top of mind is the...
The REAL ID deadline is coming up shortly, on May 7. People will need a REAL ID-compliant identification card to board a domestic flight or enter a military base or other federal facilities. A...
JOINT SESSION–Senate President Gary Stevens (R–Kodiak) and Speaker of the House Bryce Edgmon preside over the joint Legislative session on April 22 where the Legislature failed to override the Governor’s veto of the bill that would increase school funding.
Today, the Alaska Legislature failed to override Governor Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a $1,000 increase to the per-student base school funding formula, known as the BSA, or Base Student Allocation.  The...
FUNDING TALK–Governor Mike Dunleavy during an April 17 press conference in the Capitol discussed his veto of Senate Bill 69, a bill passed by the Legislature that would have increased the per student funding formula by $1,000.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a bill today that would have increased the per-student base funding formula by $1,000, about 17 percent, instead submitting a bill which proposes a $560 increase along with...
 ON THE FLOOR–Senator Donny Olson during a Senate Floor session on April 10.
  The City of Nome could lose $10 million in state funding, which was part of a $175 million appropriation by the Alaska Legislature in May 2022 for the Port of Nome expansion. This has come as a...
HANDS OFF— Nomeites gather at Anvil City Square on Saturday to join nationwide protests against Trump and DOGE.
Last Saturday, people in more than 1,200 locations across the country rallied against President Donald Trump and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency and its leader Elon Musk, in what is...
ARCTIC AFFAIRS— Former U.S. Arctic Ambassador Michael Sfraga spoke to the Senate Special Committee on Arctic Affairs last week. He explained how critical Alaska is for the U.S. as a global power in the Arctic and how the Port of Nome could play a strategic role in that.
Speaking to state senators last week, Mike Sfraga, the former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Arctic Affairs emphasized the importance of the Bering Strait region in domestic and foreign policy. “I...

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