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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...

Graphite One begins permitting process

By Anna Lionas | Graphite One’s Graphite Creek Mining project has entered the FAST-41 permitting process, a federal initiative that helps projects speed up the permitting process and requires public...

TIME CAPSULE OPENING—Joe Fullwood holds up a poster of the New Kids on the Block for the crowd gathered in the Richard Foster Building to watch the opening of the 1990 Summer Reading Program time capsule.

1990 Time Capsule: Cracking open a can of time

By Anna Lionas | A big cheer rippled through the room when a set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figures were pulled out and held in the air for the crowd to see. After 35 years the time...

SNAKE RIVER BRIDGE— On Monday, July 21, DOT workers began the process of building a temporary bridge as the current one is slanted severely, rendering it unsafe for passage, especially in icy conditions.

Temporary bridge being constructed at Snake River

By Anna Lionas | It wobbles, it slides, it’s been determined unsafe to drive over. The Snake River bridge on the Nome-Teller Highway closed on Monday for an estimated six days of construction as the...