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Photo by Jenni Monet SUMMIT— President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a joint press conference Friday, August 15, 2025, at the Arctic Warrior Events Center on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.

At the Edge of Peace: The Trump–Putin Summit and Bering Strait History with Russia

At the cease-fire summit with Donald Trump in Anchorage, Vladimir Putin invoked the geography that binds Russia and America reluctantly together: a pair of islands divided by a strip of water, miles...

The US Army Corps of Engineers awarded a bid to Kiewit to begin Phase 1a of the Port of Nome Modification project.

Army Corps of Engineers awards port expansion Phase 1a bid to Kiewit

By Diana Haecker | As the local and national press was focused on the historic meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, August 15 at Joint Base...

N NOME— Pictured are left to right Congressmen Jimmy Patronis (R-FL) and Mike Ezell (R-MS), both on the subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, acting Commandant of the Coast Guard, Admiral Kevin E. Lunday and Master Chief Phillip Waldron, during a meeting with local leaders in Nome on Saturday, August 9.

High-Ranking US Coast Guard officials and visiting congressmen listen in on plan to expand Nome’s Arctic Deep Draft Port

By Jenni Monet | On the eve of commissioning the repurposed Storis, moored in Juneau — what is now the United States’ first new polar icebreaker in a quarter century — senior U.S. Coast Guard...

Municipal candidate filing period has opened

By Diana Haecker Starting August 8, the filing period has opened for candidates running for the upcoming October municipal, utility and school board elections. On the ballot in Nome is the office for...

COAST GUARD— The USCG Waesche, a legend-class national security cutter, sits in the Nome roadstead on Monday, August 11. The U.S. Coast Guard is currently carrying out its Operation “Frontier Sentinel.”

US military holds multiple Arctic defense drills in region

By Jenni Monet When people in Southcentral Alaska spotted a large white and silver balloon floating in the sky last week, it quickly got people talking about the unmanned Chinese balloon that flew...

GOOD BYE–Josie Bourdon chats with Kirsten Bey, who measures and cuts fabric on Thursday July 31, the last day of Sew Far North under Bey’s ownership.

Nome bids farewell to longtime pillar of the community

By Anna Lionas Last Thursday afternoon Kirsten Bey’s fabric and yarn shop Sew Far North was swamped with customers. Sun blazing outside, she had the door to her store wide open; customers entered in...

Graphite One’s federal permits could be issued in one year

By Anna Lionas The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has made a preliminary determination that Graphite One’s Graphite Creek mine project could complete the federal permitting process before October 2026...

Foreign diplomats, corporate executives, policy makers, politicians and Indigenous representatives, from across TK countries, gathered in Anchorage, Alaska for the Arctic Encounter Summit, July 30-August 1, 2025.

‘Conflict and Cooperation’: Arctic Summit confronts Bering Strait tensions and ties

ARCTIC ENCOUNTER— Ambassadors from Canada, Japan, South Korea, and the United States engage in a panel discussion hosted by the Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies at the 2025 Arctic...

The Valkyrie is headed from Vancouver to Wainwright to be used for the burial phase of the fiberoptic cable repair.

Quintillion cable outage stretches into the seventh month

By Anna Lionas | Repairs to the broken Quintillion fiberoptic cable in the Beaufort Sea are on the horizon, seven months after the cut caused widespread internet outages in western and northern...

IPOP proposes a gold mine operation in the Bonanza Channel

State reaffirms decision to deny mining permit to IPOP

By Diana Haecker | After reviewing an appeal by IPOP LLC that sought to overturn a mining permit denial by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, the agency on Monday issued a document...