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With the M/V Westerdam cruise ship dominating the horizon and the town on Friday, Nomeites took over town on Saturday to truly kick off the Midnight Sun Festival weekend. They raced, paraded, soaked...
A fire that started Wednesday night, June 26 around 6 p.m. has consumed the Stebbins school, teacher housing units and other school-related structures, burning the entire complex to the ground....
A fire that started around 6 p.m. at the shop of the Tukurngailnguq School in Stebbins spread to the main building, the school's principal Robert Cooper confirmed on Wednesday, June 26.
He said the...
The City of Nome has applied for a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to significantly expand the laydown area at the Cape Nome jetty, adjacent to the Sound Quarry, a Bering Straits Native...
Last Wednesday night, June 12, family and friends gathered to witness The Catherine Tobuk Miss Alaska Native Brotherhood pageant at the Mini Convention Center.
The competition was between Victoria...
After having been caught in dense sea ice for 14 days, the research vessel Norseman II is on its way back to Nome, to undergo repairs.
The ship had been drifting with the ice off the northern coast...
By Colin A. Warren
Last week a team of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers arrived in Nome to launch the third year of a study that seeks to study sea ice retreat and chart...
By Colin A. Warren
Not long after the shorefast ice dissipated and ice floes drifted out to sea, gold dredges of all shapes took to the waters in front of Nome; engines are rattling away and smoke...
The Nome Common Council on Monday passed through second reading the city’s fiscal year 2025 budget and set a property mill rate of 11.5, an increase of one point over last year.
The general fund...
Robert O’Connor, 73, was sentenced to 100 years jail time, with 40 years suspended, on Monday, June 3 for sexually abusing eight victims between 1990 and 2022.
O’Connor was arrested in January 2023...