For more than a year the Nome Common Council had wrestled with the task updating Nome’s taxicab licensing ordinance.
For more than a year the Nome Common Council had wrestled with the task updating Nome’s taxicab licensing ordinance.
On Monday, the deed was done as the council unanimously voted to get rid of a cap on the number of taxicab licenses and to modify...
Landline phones at several businesses, offices and residences across Nome were down or experienced intermittent outages for over a week. As of February 2, many landlines were functional again.
The Nome Police Department reported that the 911 number...
If basketball fans wanted to witness competitive games in Kotzebue last week, their best bet was to find out when the Nome-Beltz girls took the floor. Three of Nome’s four games came down to the wire, with two of those contests decided in overtime...
Members of the U.S. Coast Guard, Alaska Air National Guard, the Alaska Department of Military and Veteran’s Affairs and Special Operations Command North visited Nome last Tuesday for a meeting with city officials, Nome Eskimo Community, and...
Grappling with the stark reality that Nome currently has no legal taxi cab service taking people from A to B, the Nome Common Council continues to be under pressure to amend the current taxi cab regulating code to be more amenable to taxi companies...
Nome hosted the Wasilla varsity boys and South Anchorage varsity girls for the “Ruckus at the Rec” basketball tournament last weekend. Parents and community members packed the Rec Center, snacking on slushies sold by Student Council and cheering on...
A familiar face will be returning to serve at the helm of the Nome Police Department as former NPD Chief Mike Heintzelman was hired on a six-month contract to become interim Chief of Police.
Chief William Crockett has not extended his contract and...
Parents showed up in force at last week’s school board meeting to voice their concerns regarding the school district’s response when a student showed up at the Nome-Beltz campus with an unloaded gun, and —addressing a separate issue— expressed...
A Nome man was charged with four counts of attempted murder in the first degree , several counts of assault, coercion, domestic violence assault and assault in the presence of children after Nome Police officers responded to a domestic violence call...
The Nome Port Commission in last week’s meeting focused mainly on the one action item on the docket: a proposal for a bathhouse and laundry facility located at the Small Boat Harbor.
Port Director Joy Baker introduced the proposal to the...
Representatives from the South Korean city of Busan, the country’s largest port, visited Nome on January 6 to tour port facilities and discuss opportunities for economic, shipping and academic exchanges.
The delegation was led by Heong-Joon Park,...
A male student at Nome-Beltz Middle High School has been charged with Terroristic Threatening in the second degree and Misconduct involving weapons in the fourth degree after being taken into custody the morning of January 6 after bringing a...
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