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At the beginning of this past school year, the administration of Nome-Beltz Middle/High School installed sensors in a set of its bathrooms to detect vaping among students. Principal Teriscovkya...
The Bering Sea region is front and center for federal fisheries researchers after the 2019 heatwave produced extreme change in the marine ecosystem. That’s according to Bob Foy, the Juneau-based...
It was standing room only in Council Chambers at City Hall last Wednesday as property owners, who had appealed the assessment of their property values, wanted their cases heard before the Board of...
Nome recognized National Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day last week. A group convened on Friday afternoon to remember and demand justice for lost relatives whose deaths and...
Health and wildlife officials confirmed a dramatic rise in rabid foxes in Nome and the region, after a winter of increased fox attacks on dogs and people. According to an ADF&G press release, of...
Seven months into his job as Alaska’s missing and murdered Indigenous persons (MMIP) investigator, Lonny Piscoya says he’s making progress. His team is growing and cracking open new leads in at least...
Update, Tuesday, May 2, 2023:
Nome student Timothy Erickson, who just turned 18 last month, was arrested at Nome-Beltz Middle and High School on Monday and taken to Anvil Mountain Correctional...
Graphite One needs to develop a much bigger mine in order to attract investors, company officials said in Nome last week. They said that automakers like Tesla wouldn’t be able to do business with...
The gas station at Bonanza Fuel will undergo a major overhaul this summer, necessitating a temporary lease of land from the City of Nome to put up a temporary gas station. An ordinance to lease a lot...
On April 1, pilot Kevin Ahl set off on his last round of flights for Bering Air after a long career with the company.
“It feels like I walked through the door last week,” Ahl said. “It’s kind of...