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Story and photos by Anna Lionas
This week, the United States Coast Guard organized an oil spill response drill in the Nome Harbor, bringing 20 entities together in person and virtually to act out an...
By Diana Haecker
The Nome Common Council passed a trimmed-down version of the fiscal year 2026 general operational budget, totaling a tad over $17 million. In work session after work session, the...
By Anna Lionas
After more than 24 hours of searching, the Nome Volunteer Fire Department Search and Rescue team found Dexter Irrigoo, 67, on Monday afternoon at the base of Gold Hill and transported...
By Laura Robertson
The federal budget bill before Congress, known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed the House of Representatives on May 22, including cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition...
By Diana Haecker
In work session after work session, the Nome Common Council is fine combing the city’s fiscal year 2026 budget, trying to balance the budget while keeping services to citizens...
By Diana Haecker
In a series of meetings in Teller, Brevig Mission and Nome last week, Graphite One Alaska updated the public on their plans to develop a graphite mine on the northern slopes of the...
By Anna Lionas
State Sen. Donny Olson (D-Golovin) is still recovering from a health issue earlier this year that took him out of the legislative session for six weeks. Olson returned to the state...
By Anna Lionas
Sitting as the Board of Equalization, Nome Common Council members sat down for a hearing last week between Norton Sound Health Corporation lawyers and an attorney for the City to...
By Anna Lionas
Local gold miner Shawn Pomerenke has an application out for a permit to mine for gold at a long-standing claim within city limits.
Last week it was discovered some of the land he...
By Anna Lionas
The Alaska Legislature is working to finalize a tight state operating budget for 2026 with just over a week to go until the regular session is scheduled to end on May 21.
The latest...