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The Nome Common Council and City administration are penciling on next year’s budget to avoid a raise in the property tax mill rate from last year’s 11 mills to around 15 mills to meet the cost of...
On Friday, April 26 at approximately 3:15 p.m., a Nome-Beltz Jr./Sr. High School student made a verbal threat involving guns and shooting up the school. According to a communication to parents from...
Nome’s NEST shelter closed Wednesday morning, May 1. The temperature is climbing above freezing but plenty of snow remains and the wind can be bitterly cold. What will the forty-odd regular clients...
A Nome jury found Austin Matthias, 24, guilty on two counts of Sex Assault in the first degree and one count of Assault in the second degree in the contract rape of another man on behalf of convicted...
The Nome Common Council met April 22 in regular meeting and postponed the two action items on the agenda, pending more discussion and additional work sessions.
The ordinances centered on a personal...
What if a deadly virus arrived in Nome and people began to die in large numbers? How would the city react? How would the city mount an effective fight to stop the virus?
Well, that’s already happened...
The Canadian-owned company Graphite One, proposing to start a graphite mine 50 miles north of Nome, has been issued a habitat permit from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to draw over 129,600...
On Saturday, April 13, a large contingent of snowmachiners took off from Nome under sunny skies and warm spring conditions to make the 70-some mile trip to Pilgrim River for the fifth annual Pilgrim...
A pilot with the National Park Service was rescued after the single engine airplane crashed en route from Kotzebue to Nome near Pish River, about four miles northeast of Serpentine Hot Springs, in...
The Nome Common Council has received from the ACLU of Alaska a 10-page analysis of an ordinance enabling a community public safety commission.
ACLU representatives who attended a Feb. 18 community...
