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Alaska lawmakers are still working to finalize Fiscal Year 2020 operating and capital budgets.
On July 17, Governor Mike Dunleavy issued a supplemental proclamation calling all 60 members of the...
On Tuesday, July 23 Alaska State troopers received a report of a motor vehicle crash that killed both driver and passenger, near mile 23 of the Kougarok Road. A passerby motorists called the troopers...
Alaska legislators last week failed to overturn Governor Mike Dunleavy’s Fiscal Year 2020 operating budget vetoes. Despite more than two hours of emotional testimonies in Juneau on July 10 as well as...
Frank D. “Punchy” Lee, 45, of Teller was sentenced to 80 years flat time in jail for the stabbing death of William Johnson, 31, in Teller on July 14, 2017.
Flat time generally means a convict must...
For three days Nomeites struggled with high temperatures seldom seen so close to the Arctic Circle.
“Nome airport was three days at 80°F or higher and that’s only happened one other time, more than...
The following is a special report and update from House Distric 39 Representative Neal Foster in regards to the Governor's recent budget vetoes and the failed override vote:
The fight to reclaim our...
Alaska Sea Grant agent Gay Sheffield from Nome responded to report of a dead bowhead and a dead grey whale northeast of Shishmaref near Cape Espenburg. Shishmaref locals loaded up in a boat with...
Rural and low-income Alaskans will feel the sting of Governor Mike Dunleavy’s budget vetoes most severely. Dunleavy’s Fiscal Year 2020 budget disproportionately eliminated funding from services...
City spending for causeway dock repair tentatively approved at Nome Common Council two weeks ago doubled Monday evening after a solitary bid from a regional company.
At the last regular Council...
The rusty tussock moth has invaded the tundra in the Nome area, an infestation of the species not seen this far north before.
The hungry little caterpillars, the larval stage of the moth, chew their...