The Nome Common Council was split on passing an ordinance in second reading that leases city property at the small boat harbor to Norton Sound Economic Development. It was not the lease itself that caused vigorous debate prior to the split vote, it...
Nome’s moose hunting season wrapped up fast. Good weather in the first few days of September may have contributed to the fast harvest in Game Units 22C and 22D Kuzitrin/Southwest.
Hunting in Game Unit 22D remainder opened August 10 and closed...
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The Nanook Cross Country team traveled to Kotzebue last weekend to compete in the Kotzebue Invitational. The traveling team consisted of eight high school boys, four high school girls, three middle school girls and one middle school boy.
When...
The Lady Nanooks faced off against the Kotzebue Huskies last Saturday at the Nome-Beltz High School gym. In a sweep, both the junior varsity and varsity Nanooks defeated the Huskies twice. The teams played in games early on Saturday afternoon and...
Just like in 2024, residents of Nome were joined by cruise ship passengers for the Labor Day festivities. At high noon sharp, three teams lined up bathtubs festooned with streamers, ready for the Great Labor Day Bathtub Race.
Team Rota-Tub, pushing...
A 15-year-old fisherman is the only survivor of a maritime tragedy involving a crew of three who departed Savoonga in a small fishing vessel on Friday, Sept. 4, and were reported missing on Sunday at 2:30 pm.
On Monday afternoon, U.S. Coast Guard...
On invitation by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the federal entity overseeing the Port of Nome expansion project, City of Nome officials and representatives of the phase 1A contractor Kiewit, gathered at the causeway on Wednesday morning, Sept. 2...
Thick fog Saturday morning led to weather delays for the annual Nome-Beltz Musk Ox Classic cross country run meet, held on trails behind the Nome-Beltz campus.
The first race of the day was the Nome Elementary Running Club race, delayed by around...
The candidate list for the 2026 Nome Municipal elections is slim. The filing deadline to declare candidacy ended on Tuesday, Sept. 1 at 5 p.m. and no late filers were seen rushing to City Hall to file their paperwork.
The official candidate list...
The good news first: all of the hunter-harvested waterfowl and collected eggs that were field-tested earlier this summer tested negative for avian influenza, according to results made public this week. But test results of birds that had been found...
“Frontier town.” That’s how many tourists off the cruise ships from the past few weeks describe Nome. Also on the list is “rustic” and “weatherbeaten.” These tourists aren’t knocking Nome, for what it is worth. They are excited to be here.
Many...
In the chaos of ex-typhoon Merbok that hit Nome and the region in September 2022, it escaped most that a special operations command of the military was holding the first iteration of Operation Polar Dagger on St. Lawrence Island. In the aftermath of...
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