On April 28, 2009, the Inuit Circumpolar Council delivered the first in what has become a series of formal statements grounded in the right to self-determination: the Circumpolar Inuit Declaration on Arctic Sovereignty. The affirmation followed a
On April 28, 2009, the Inuit Circumpolar Council delivered the first in what has become a series of formal statements grounded in the right to self-determination: the Circumpolar Inuit Declaration on Arctic Sovereignty. The affirmation followed a...
On the afternoon of Tuesday, May 5, Nomeites marched down Front Street from the UAF Northwest Campus to Anvil City Square to commemorate Missing and Murdered Indigenous Person’s Day. Some people carried signs with pictures of lost loved ones. Some...
Last Thursday, April 30, a crowd of young people gathered around a table in the Mini Convention Center as Roy Ashenfelter lead a demonstration on processing salmon with an ulu.
Earlier in the day, there had been lessons on making fur flowers,...
For the first time in Teller’s municipal existence, residents can be hopeful that a piped water and sewer system will be installed in the community.
Last week, the Indian Health Service announced that $65 million would fund construction of Teller’s...
A monthslong search for Kelly Hunt that frustrated family members over a perceived lack urgency from investigators culminated last week when Anchorage police said they found the body of the 19-year-old in the Spenard neighborhood.
The Anchorage...
On Friday afternoon, April 17, in downtown Anchorage, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, arrived at the Arctic Encounter Summit at the Dena’ina Convention Center, an annual gathering of policymakers, business leaders and international officials focused...
The snow has barely melted off Nome’s roads and fine dust kicked up by cars or the wind already becomes a nuisance and more than that, a health hazard.
Nome Eskimo Community Executive Director Emma Pate this week called for a meeting of a newly...
Students and community showed up in force at the April meeting of the Nome Public Schools Board of Education meeting, expressing their discontent with the lack of support for graduating seniors and their post-graduation planning.
Six students and...
As soon as the sea ice is stable in front of town, movable shacks and community projects use the ice as a platform. Some are practical such as temporary gold mining camps; some are quirky like the Nome National Forest – and some are mysterious....
Dust, spoilage of a pristine subsistence area, skepticism of baseline studies assertions and testimony of deep connections to the land proposed to be turned into a graphite mine dominated public comments during a meeting hosted by U.S. Army Corps of...
The Nome Common Council on Monday passed a resolution to contribute $3 million to the school district for fiscal year 2027, beginning on July 1. The contribution can be increased later as the city’s budget is finalized over the coming months....
Over 60 students from across the state gathered in Nome last weekend for the annual United Youth Courts of Alaska, or UYCA, conference.
On the stage of Nome Elementary School cafeteria, Sigvanna Tapqaq, the Nome Youth Court coordinator, lit an seal...
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