Story and photos by Anna Lionas
This week, the United States Coast Guard organized an oil spill response drill in the Nome Harbor, bringing 20 entities together in person and virtually to act out an exercise in detail over three days.
The Mini...
By Diana Haecker
The Nome Common Council passed a trimmed-down version of the fiscal year 2026 general operational budget, totaling a tad over $17 million. In work session after work session, the council and city staff whittled the budget down...
Photo by Ian McRae SPEEDY OUTSIDE–Speedy the snake hangs out at the Nome Elementary School playground.
By Anna Lionas
It’s finally summertime which means Speedy the snake will have Nome Elementary School to himself for a few months....
By Anna Lionas
After more than 24 hours of searching, the Nome Volunteer Fire Department Search and Rescue team found Dexter Irrigoo, 67, on Monday afternoon at the base of Gold Hill and transported him to Norton Sound Regional Hospital.
Irrigoo,...
By Laura Robertson
On Wednesday, May 28, Nome’s streets filled up with trucks and cars decorated in Nanook blue and white, celebrating the Nome-Beltz graduating Class of 2025 with a customary graduation parade.
Seniors sat in the backs of trucks...
By Laura Robertson
The federal budget bill before Congress, known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed the House of Representatives on May 22, including cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, that about 3,530 people in the...
By Diana Haecker
In work session after work session, the Nome Common Council is fine combing the city’s fiscal year 2026 budget, trying to balance the budget while keeping services to citizens intact and not laying off any employees.
On Tuesday...
By Diana Haecker
In a series of meetings in Teller, Brevig Mission and Nome last week, Graphite One Alaska updated the public on their plans to develop a graphite mine on the northern slopes of the Kigluaik Mountains and to hear people’s concerns...
By Anna Lionas
State Sen. Donny Olson (D-Golovin) is still recovering from a health issue earlier this year that took him out of the legislative session for six weeks. Olson returned to the state Capitol to represent Senate District T on March 11....
By Anna Lionas
Sitting as the Board of Equalization, Nome Common Council members sat down for a hearing last week between Norton Sound Health Corporation lawyers and an attorney for the City to review NSHC’s appeal of the city’s denial of property...
Story and photos by Anna Lionas
To laugh or not to laugh –- if that was the question, then the answer was a no brainer for audience members attending the Nome-Beltz student production of I Hate Shakespeare! which ran May 14-16.
The elementary school...
By Anna Lionas
Local gold miner Shawn Pomerenke has an application out for a permit to mine for gold at a long-standing claim within city limits.
Last week it was discovered some of the land he proposes to mine is not zoned for resource...
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