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Nome Nugget reporters won several awards at last week’s Alaska Press Club conference. The annual gathering of the state's journalists in Anchorage provides reporters continued education on...
The start of spring means millions of migrating birds will soon flock to the Bering Strait region. While subsistence users and other residents welcome this return, they unfortunately need to be on...
Last July, researchers detected high concentrations of a toxin-producing algae offshore in the Bering Strait region.
Residents were urged to use caution when consuming marine foods like clams—and...
The item was not on the agenda, but a discussion at Monday’s regular Nome Common Council meeting addressed the widespread unhappiness felt by property owners in Nome as real property assessment...
Early last week, Michael Ahkinga, Jr. was heading into his family’s home in Wales to sit down for coffee with his dad. Suddenly, the family dog and his sister’s dog ran up from the beach with an...
ANCHORAGE – Mayor of Nome, John Handeland, appeared before an international convention in Anchorage, March 29, which addressed geopolitics in a melting Arctic and Nome’s role as a key partner in...
On March 20, the power went out in Diomede and wasn’t restored until the afternoon of March 31. For 11 days, the island’s 76 residents shared generators and made sure each other’s houses had enough...
State game managers have been under pressure to address the musk ox population around Nome following the deadly goring of Curtis Worland by a musk ox in December. In a bid to reduce the animals’...
By Diana Haecker
Senator Donny Olson (D-Golovin) and Rep. Neal Foster (D-Nome) told the Nome Common Council on Monday of efforts in the state legislature to claw back some of the $175 million...
By Megan Gannon
The Alaska Department of Natural Resources issued a permit, allowing Graphite One to move heavy equipment from the Kougarok Road through Mosquito Pass on a temporary winter trail....