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It’s been over a week since the Quintillion fiber optic cable was severed below the sea ice over 30 miles North of Oliktok Point. Despite the spotty service, Nome carries on, as telecommunications...
The Serum Run centennial celebration is here and Nome as well as Nenana are hosting events in honor of the historic event that commemorates the transport of lifesaving diphtheria serum run by relay...
The Nome Common Council spent most of its short meeting on Monday discussing the ask of the Nome School District to pre-fund upgrades to the entrances at Nome-Beltz and the Nome Elementary School for...
“With the arrival of Gunnar Kaasen on Monday morning with the package containing 300,000 units of diphtheria antitoxin a great strain was lifted from the minds of many of the population of Nome,”...
Eighteen events and eight talks are scheduled to take place during the next week’s anniversary celebration to honor the mushers, dogs, medical personnel, and decision-makers involved in the heroic...
On Saturday morning, the Quintillion subsea fiberoptic cable broke, leaving Nome and many other western and northwestern Alaska communities without internet. This is the second major network outage...
In its first meeting this year, the Nome Common Council breezed through an varied agenda, full of issues to be tackled in the year ahead.
While the City is still looking for a permanent City Manager...
It’s a new year, and, for Polar Enterprises, a new era. Though everything may have appeared business as usual to regulars, Sunday, January 5 marked the transfer of ownership to Mymy and Larry St....
While the ball was dropping in Times Square, Nome welcomed in the New Year—or at least, waved goodbye to the old one—with fireworks.
Cars filled up parking lots and roads between the small boat...
On Monday, President Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of 44 million acres of the Northern Bering Sea from federal oil and gas leasing.
Using a section of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act,...