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As the storms of fall draw near and the village of Kivalina clings to its narrow barrier island the impasse over moving to higher ground has given way. Funding to build a road to the new town site...
At the 10th annual meeting of the U.S.-Russia Polar Bear Commission in Egvekinot, Chukotka July 27 to 28 the annual sustainable harvest level of the Alaska-Chukotka polar bear population was raised....
After having been advised by permitting agencies that they had to go back to the drawing board and apply for additional permits, the gold mining outfit going by the name of IPOP LLC has last week...
On July 20, members of the Alaska Senate State Affairs Committee gathered to hear from representatives from a number of government agencies about the implementation and potential impact of Ballot...
Three Russian travelers from Irkutsk spent a few days in Nome this past week on their catamaran sailboat.
They were on their way from Lake Baikal, which is in Central Asia, to Anchorage on a voyage...
A Golovin resident recently happened upon a rare find on a beach near Golovin: a seal satellite tracker, which came off a bearded seal that was tagged in September 2017 in Koyuk.
The tags are glued...
Besides top stories posted on the Nugget's home pages, these are the articles inside this week's Nugget:
Nome Elementary School locks up in response to concerning online post,
Nome man charged on...
The Nome Common Council gave the nod to seeking the public’s yay or nay on the issue of raising the sales tax on hotel and motel rooms.
Local voters will find the question on the Oct. 2 municipal...
Nome’s Kaylene Iñuuraq Evans has been crowned Miss WEIO 2018 at the World Eskimo Indian Olympics in Fairbanks last weekend. She is the daughter of Bobby Evans and Kathleen Jaycox and is the first...
The City of Nome has identified a Snake River Moorage and vessel haul-out facility as a priority project in the Port of Nome’s plans for development at a projected cost of $14 million.
The Nome...