The patience of Nomeites was tried lately as mail, groceries and long-awaited Amazon boxes were slow in arriving in Nome, and by extension in the regional communities.
The municipal election results for Tuesday, Oct. 6, were a foregone conclusion as none of the seats saw competing candidates, including the separate election for the Nome representative seat on the Norton Sound Economic Development Board. Of Nome's...
The patience of Nomeites was tried lately as mail, groceries and long-awaited Amazon boxes were slow in arriving in Nome, and by extension in the regional communities.
Starting Wednesday, Alaska Airlines stopped accepting cargo shipments to Nome,...
The Teller Cultural Festival marked its 20th anniversary this year and the round number comes with a sad connotation: the long time organizer Cora Ablowaluk is stepping back, seeking a successor who would carry on the torch.
The first festival was...
On Tuesday, Oct. 6, Nome voters will be casting their ballots for two Nome Common Council seats, two NJUS board seats and two School Board seats. There is no contested seat in this municipal election. Voters also will be casting a ballot for NSEDC’...
A conflict of interest question brought efforts to overhaul the City of Nome’s pull-tabs ordinance to a screeching halt as the Nome Common Council was getting ready to vote on it in first reading, during Monday’s regular council meeting.
Council...
The Alaska State Troopers are investigating the death of 40-year-old Lorraine M. Saccheus in Elim. According to a trooper dispatch, on September 26, 2026, at 12:50 a.m., a health aide in Elim reported that Saccheus was injured at a house in Elim...
After an exciting Big West Regional Meet held in Nome on Saturday, September 26 that featured competitors from Kotzebue, Utqiagvik, Bethel and Nome, the Nanooks are sending five runners to the State Championships this coming Saturday at Bartlett...
Last Friday, in a parking lot behind the UAF Northwest Campus, a group of Nome ANSEP Acceleration Academy students next to a bright orange van were working to assemble a basketball hoop. Inside, other students were quietly working on classwork....
Alaska Airlines has again put an embargo on freight shipped to Nome from Anchorage until September 26. According to Alaska Air spokesperson Tim Thompson, the embargo began September 18. "Due to ongoing freighter maintenance, Alaska Air Cargo has...
On September 17, a crowd of patients, families and Norton Sound Health Corporation board members gathered in the newly expanded Quyanna Care Center, or QCC, to celebrate the ribbon cutting of the new space.
The $43.5 million project effectively...
Last week’s meeting of the Nome Port Commission was well attended by those with opinions on what to do about the storage issue on the lower industrial pad at the Port of Nome. In a work session before the meeting, over a dozen port users piped up...
On September 10, a row of ANSEP Acceleration Academy students seated in the King Island Native Community Hall introduced themselves hesitantly in Inupiaq, listing off the names of their parents, grandparents and where they lived. The students were...
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