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Passengers getting out of the tender boats, during Westerdam's visit to Nome in 2025.
The Noordam, the season’s first and largest cruise ship, is scheduled to arrive on Thursday in Nome, carrying about 1,600 passengers. The Noordam is the sister ship to the Westerdam, which visited...
An Alaska Airlines plane leaving Nome on June 15, 2026.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s Flight Service Stations in Nome and Kotzebue have been closed for several weeks now with no clear timeframe if or when the offices will reopen, causing alarm in...
Nugget file photo by Diana Haecker
Nome can look forward to a week packed with Midnight Sun festivities as planning is underway by several organizations to celebrate the summer solstice. To answer the most burning questions related...
Alaska Airlines had to cancel flights last week due to FAA staffing shortage and NWS equipment failures.
Alaska Airlines canceled flights to Nome and Kotzebue last week due to staffing issues at the FAA’S Flight Service Station, or FSS, and weather reporting system equipment not reporting visibility...
PUBLIC MEETING— Graphite One representatives inform Teller residents in a meeting on June 2 at the Teller James Isabell School gym on updates to the proposed graphite mine.
Torn between the prospect of jobs and the fear of losing subsistence grounds that have nourished the people of Mary’s Igloo, Teller and Brevig Mission for generations, Teller residents voiced their...
HAULING TRASH— Rachel Ventress, left,  unloads her car with the help of Patty Burchell, center, and City Manager Lee Smith in the Old St. Joe’s parking lot at the city’s spring cleanup on Saturday, June 6.
Last Saturday, community members roamed town with bright yellow trash bags in the annual effort to rid the city of trash and debris as the winter’s snow cover has melted, exposing old “treasures.”...
EGG SWAB— Dr. Lisa Kercher swabs a gull’s egg freshly collected from the nearby tundra for HPAI testing, on Thursday, June 4 at East End Park in Nome. Normally she takes samples from the throat and the rear end of harvested birds but obliged when the eggs were presented for testing.
Nomeites are used to odd sights. But huge cardboard signs saying, “Bird Flu Testing” and “Free Shells” propped up against a rental car at East End Park did warrant a double take. Turns out,...
HUNTING NEAR SLEDGE ISLAND—Dewey Koweluk pulls a seal back to the boat.  His uncle, Andrew Koweluk, accompanies him.
Three miles east of Nome you find a special place called Fort Davis (aka “Fort”).  It was there that my family’s Native allotment was located which we grew to love as children.  Like many Nome...
OPEN HOUSE— Graphite One Senior Vice President of Mining Kevin Torpy was on hand to answer questions during the G1 open house event in Nome on May 31.
On a warm and sunny Sunday afternoon, Graphite One representatives invited the Nome public to an Open House at Old St. Joe’s to learn more about the proposed graphite mine in the northern Kigulaik...
The Port of Nome invited to an open house informational meeting last week, at Old St. Joe's.
Port of Nome officials invited to an open house last Thursday at Old St. Joe’s, with the goal to present several projects around the small boat harbor and Nome’s port to the public. Looming large...

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