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HONORING THE FALLEN— Flagbearers lead the parade to the Snake River where a wreath was laid to honor those fallen at sea.
For a short while, the sky was crying as Nome veterans gathered at 11 a.m. on Front Street for the annual Memorial Day parade to the Nome Belmont Cemetery. By the time the parade reached Seppala...
WATERWAYS— U.S. Coast Guard Captain Christopher Culpepper, the commander of Sector Western Alaska and U.S. Arctic addresses the attendees at the Waterways Safety Committee Exploratory Meeting at the UAF Northwest Campus on Tuesday, May 19.
Tribal representatives and stakeholders from the region, along with outside commercial entities met with the U.S. Coast Guard representatives in Nome last week to discuss the possibility of standing...
REGIONAL PRIORITIES – Kawerak’s Amanda Toerdal and Anahma Shannon point to regional energy priorities  at the Bering Strait Regional Energy Summit on Wednesday, May 13 at the Mini Convention Center in Nome.
Delegates from the Bering Strait region and representatives from government, scientific and commercial groups met last week for the Bering Strait Regional Energy Summit, hosted by Kawerak, at the...
Nome has currently no taxi cab service but efforts are afoot to create a driver network remedy the situation.
The lack of legally running taxis in Nome since January of this year has imposed hardship on Nomeites and visitors alike who don’t own their own vehicles to get around. But the void is about to be...
THE TOUR— Public Works Supervisor Cole Cushman speaks to council members and administration during a tour of Nome’s infrastructure on Thursday, April 30.
The Nome Common Council went on a tour of Nome’s public infrastructure and saw first-hand that work is needed to bring city buildings and equipment up to speed.  The Beam Road landfill’s current...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY— Staff congratulated City Manager Lee Smith, center, on his birthday, on Monday, May 11. Also pictured are Mayor Ken Hughes, left, and council member Mark Johnson, right.
The Nome Common Council is on track to pass a budget for fiscal year 2027, but all present council members agreed on Monday that the final product still needs a bit of work before its final passage...
Graphic: Kiewit
The Nome Planning Commission accepted a proposal for the flow of traffic from the Kiewit crew camp to be constructed at Steadman and 6th Avenue this summer. Kiewit is the contractor for Phase 1A of...
    We take many things for granted. The water flowing out of the tap. The clean air we breathe. The groceries available to us at the store.  And the local newspaper. The Nome Nugget is one of...
Inuit Circumpolar Council Alaska with member organziation representatives announcing the Alaskan Inuit Arctic Strategy, April 15, during the Arctic Encounter Summit 2026 in Anchorage, Alaska. Pictured are (left to right) Vernae Angnaboogok (ICC Alaska) Marie Kasaŋnaaluk Greene (President, ICC Alaska), Walter Sampson (Northwest Arctic Borough), Vivian Anginran Korthuis (CEO, Association of Village Council Presidents), Mary David (Exec. VP, Kawerak), Bridget Anderson (Arctic Slope Regional Corporation).
On April 28, 2009, the Inuit Circumpolar Council delivered the first in what has become a series of formal statements grounded in the right to self-determination: the Circumpolar Inuit Declaration on...
MISSING SISTER— Blaire Okpealuk shows the attendees gathered at Old St. Joe’s at the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People’s Day vigil on Tuesday, May 5 a picture of her sister Florence Okpealuk, who has been missing since 2020.
On the afternoon of Tuesday, May 5, Nomeites marched down Front Street from the UAF Northwest Campus to Anvil City Square to commemorate Missing and Murdered Indigenous Person’s Day. Some people...

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