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An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.1 rocked Cape Nome, about 12 miles east of town, early Sunday morning. The quake had a depth of 12.1 miles, according to U.S. Geological Survey’s Alaska Earthquake...
Members of the Arctic-FROST Steering Committee visited Nome early last week, hosting a workshop entitled “Sustainability that Works in the Arctic: Sharing Challenges and Experiences of Arctic...
The Nome Common Council had three action items on its meeting agenda March 28 that the panel hashed over at length with benefit of a vocal public audience.
Council members voted to approve language...
The Nome Common Council will again on March 28 consider a rate increase of 10 percent across the board at Port of Nome. At its last meeting earlier in March, the panel tabled a vote on a revised port...
Nome’s Carrie M. McLain Memorial Museum opened its doors in the new Richard Foster building for Iditarod with a week-long roster of events in which several notable visitors stopped by, including 2016...
Norton Sound Health Corporation and Kawerak, Inc. held a joint board of directors meeting on March 10 and 11 in Nome. The meeting was attended by representatives from several villages. The days...
Preliminary results from the March 1 Republican Presidential Preference poll in Alaska show that New York real estate magnate Donald Trump took 47.3 percent of Republican votes in Nome. Nome had by...
The Nome Common Council said ‘no’ to this season’s port tariff revision at a special meeting called to approve the document to get it to shippers.
The revised Port of Nome fees and regulation...
British explorers Neil Laughton of England and James Bingham of Wales were rescued from the Bering Strait on March 4. The duo was attempting to cross the Strait from Wales to Little Diomede Island by...
As if the 85 mushers preparing to start the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race this weekend don’t have enough to worry about, a large canine parvovirus outbreak has been confirmed in Interior Alaska.
State...