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By Megan Gannon The City of Nome’s new online system for collecting sales and bed tax went live on Tuesday. Starting January 10, businesses will no longer be able to file their taxes via paper...
LIVING AMONGST MUSK OXEN— A huge herd of musk oxen grazes near the City Field airstrip, with Icy View in the background and the busy Nome-Teller highway to the left.
By Diana Haecker Public pressure mounts to effect change of musk ox management in Nome as the community still reels from Curtis Worland’s death due to a musk ox goring on December 13. The...
JOB CENTER — Vickie Erickson and her successor Dan Fishel at Nome’s Job Center.
 By Megan Gannon Vickie Erickson’s career at the Nome Job Center has been bookended by periods of great change. When she started 24 years ago, the office still had a physical job board that people...
By Hayden Godfrey and Audrey Hill When Ward Walker moved to the seaside village of Stebbins, Alaska, in 1995, he was told there would be running water within the next five years. The 63-year-old,...
TESTIFYING— Mushers Garrick Fuller, Kamey Kapp Worland, Melissa Owens, Jeff Darling and Nils Hahn addressed the Northern Norton Sound Fish and Game Advisory Committee at their meeting on Monday, calling for solutions to thin the ever-growing musk oxen herds in and around Nome.
By Diana Haecker Not even a week after Curtis Worland, a Nome musher and Alaska State Trooper Court Services Officer, succumbed to injuries inflicted by a musk ox, several dog mushers and other Nome...
BROTHERS—Keith and Clark Reddaway continue their father’s legacy at Builders Industrial Supply, this year celebrating 50 years in business.
By Megan Gannon When the Nugget reached out to Clark Reddaway for an interview about the 50th anniversary of Builders Industrial Supply, he refused at first: “Any 30 minutes I give you is 30 minutes...
By Miriam Trujillo It’s the holiday season, and festive cheer is sweeping the Bering Strait region.  The Nome Nugget reached out to communities in our region to find out what holiday traditions make...
By Megan Gannon For those living in the Bering Sea region, the trends explained in the latest Arctic Report Card won’t come as a surprise. There’s more rain, higher temperatures and less sea ice....
By Diana Haecker At last Monday’s regular Nome Common Council meeting City Manager Glenn Steckman announced the mechanism through which the city will disperse a one-time NSEDC fuel subsidy to...
By Megan Gannon Last week a musk ox gored Shawn Pomrenke’s 10-year-old Malamute named Kona outside of his family’s man camp near the Old Glacier Creek Road. Pomrenke told the Nugget that Kona had...

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