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On Friday, June 28, Governor Mike Dunleavy announced $444 million of line item vetoes from Alaska’s Fiscal Year 2020 operating budget.
The most substantial reduction was $130 million from the...
Norton Sound crab fishermen began dropping their pots into the Bering Sea Tuesday, June 25 at noon. Deliveries to Norton Sound Seafood Products started arriving three days later. The crabs coming in...
By Sandra L. Medearis
Nome Common Council members sat down to a work table stacked high with a pile of City budgets to work through second reading and final passage Monday evening.
Taxing authority...
In an evening filled with music, laughter and remembrance, the Nome Arts Council and the community honored Richard Beneville for the many roles he played –and still does – in Nome.
There were tears...
Last week Nome welcomed the First Alaskans Institute and their cohorts in an endeavor called “Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation.” That’s TRHT for short. It is an effort backed by the W.K....
A dozen search and rescue volunteers from around the Seward Peninsula spent three days in Nome learning to operate the region’s new Defender, a remotely operated vehicle. The underwater drone uses...
When young Jack James looked out the window of his home at Anvil Mountain on June 7, he saw a red squirrel.
It’s quite remarkable that Jack recognized it as such, as the species doesn’t exactly live...
A large fire burning 28 miles northeast of Koyuk has filled the air of Nome with smoke. The North River Fire grew to 32,500 acres as of Monday afternoon, is burning tundra and stands of black spruce...
Did you know that gyrfalcons, avian predators and the world’s largest falcons, keep the same mate year after year, but sometimes borrow other birds’ nests?
Michael Henderson and Devin Johnson shared...
The Nome Common Council postponed consideration of the City’s seven budget divisions for lack of sufficient notice in the newspaper.
Nevertheless, the Council worked on issues important to several...