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The Nome Common Council will again on March 28 consider a rate increase of 10 percent across the board at Port of Nome. At its last meeting earlier in March, the panel tabled a vote on a revised port...
Nome’s Carrie M. McLain Memorial Museum opened its doors in the new Richard Foster building for Iditarod with a week-long roster of events in which several notable visitors stopped by, including 2016...
Norton Sound Health Corporation and Kawerak, Inc. held a joint board of directors meeting on March 10 and 11 in Nome. The meeting was attended by representatives from several villages. The days...
Preliminary results from the March 1 Republican Presidential Preference poll in Alaska show that New York real estate magnate Donald Trump took 47.3 percent of Republican votes in Nome. Nome had by...
The Nome Common Council said ‘no’ to this season’s port tariff revision at a special meeting called to approve the document to get it to shippers.
The revised Port of Nome fees and regulation...
British explorers Neil Laughton of England and James Bingham of Wales were rescued from the Bering Strait on March 4. The duo was attempting to cross the Strait from Wales to Little Diomede Island by...
As if the 85 mushers preparing to start the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race this weekend don’t have enough to worry about, a large canine parvovirus outbreak has been confirmed in Interior Alaska.
State...
Commissioners for the Port of Nome have revised the tariff rules and regulations to include safety measures.
The Nome Common Council was scheduled to consider the final draft of Port of Nome Tariff...
Last week, the Community Alcohol Safety Team gathered at Kawerak’s Talialuk boardroom for two days to hear data presented by Dr. Brian Saylor that was to help the group make community-based decisions...
In the last few years, much of the focus to develop Pilgrim Hot Springs was on its potential to provide geothermal energy to Nome, but with those plans not advancing, there are now efforts afoot to...