By Diana Haecker

By Diana Haecker
Kawerak Environmental Program Director Anahma Shannon made the case for a much-needed recycling center facility in Nome, presenting information from a feasibility study and several solutions to the Nome Common Council last week....
By Megan Gannon
Last week educators and the Nome Public Schools Board of Education discussed ways to bring more arts into the classrooms.
During the regular board meeting, Nome Elementary School Principal Elizabeth Korenek-Johnson said that a lot...

By Melissa Ford,
NNST Head Coach
The Nome Northstar Swim Team hosted the 2023 Gold Rush Swim Meet last weekend. The Stingray Swim Team came from North Pole to participate and left with qualifying times also. The Nome pool was fast and furious this...
By Diana Haecker
A woman and a boy were killed by a polar bear in Wales, on Tuesday, January 17. Alaska State Troopers identified the mauling victims as 24-year-old Saint Michael resident Summer Myomick and her 1-year-old son Clyde Ongtowasruk....

By Diana Haecker
A lot has happened since last summer and an ordinance passed last July has slipped people’s mind, but is now being implemented, as the city’s administration is rolling out a new sales and bed tax collection system, moving the...
By Megan Gannon
The City of Nome’s new online system for collecting sales and bed tax went live on Tuesday. Starting January 10, businesses will no longer be able to file their taxes via paper documents and apply for or renew a city business...

By Diana Haecker
Public pressure mounts to effect change of musk ox management in Nome as the community still reels from Curtis Worland’s death due to a musk ox goring on December 13.
The management objective of ADF&G is to grow the musk ox...

By Megan Gannon
From Thursday to Saturday last week, the den of the Nanooks was packed with spectators cheering on the boys and girls high school basketball teams in the annual Subway Showdown.
Several of the 12 games played during the round-robin...

By Megan Gannon
Vickie Erickson’s career at the Nome Job Center has been bookended by periods of great change.
When she started 24 years ago, the office still had a physical job board that people seeking employment would come to inspect. Soon...