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NVFD Chief Jim West Jr.
Search efforts continue to find the missing Bering Air Caravan with nine passengers and one pilot aboard. The plane left Unalakleet in the afternoon and did not arrive in Nome. The FAA issued a...
LITTLE DIOMEDE— Some residents of Little Diomede felt the 5.0 earthquake on Sunday night. Worries are that other seasons the tremors could loosen rocks and boulders above the community and fall on homes.
By Laura Robertson The Alaska Earthquake Center reported 5.0 magnitude earthquake 21 miles south of Little Diomede on Sunday, February 2 around 9 p.m. A second tremor occurred on Monday, Feb. 3...
It’s been almost 20 days since the Quintillion fiber optic cable was scoured by ice resulting in slow or no internet in communities across western and northwestern Alaska, with repairs not possible...
DOG TIME— Nomeites and visitors ran out to pet and take photos with the dogs who mushed in from Safety on Sunday February 2.
The Serum Run Centennial brought a spotlight on Nome once again as news outlets nationwide and even internationally recapped the anniversary of the historic mush across interior Alaska to bring the...
Nome first responders gathered at Nome Fire Hall to organize the response to a missing airplane in the area.
UPDATE 8:30 a.m.: Last night the U.S. Coast Guard and Air Force sent C-130 planes to search the area between White Mountain and Cape Nome and over the sea ice between Unalakleet and Cape Nome. They...
ZOOMED IN— Colonel Patrick Collins of United States Special Operations Command North spoke to the region in a Strait Science on January 23. Collins discussed the training exercise Operation Polar Dagger, held in the Bering Sea.
Last week’s Strait Science presentation, a series of lectures presented by Northwest Campus and Alaska Sea Grant to promote understanding between citizens of the Bering Strait region and the...
FIBER CUT— Quintillion determined through imaging and analysis an ice scour caused the fiber optic cable break approximately 32-37 miles north of Oliktok Point.
It’s been over a week since the Quintillion fiber optic cable was severed below the sea ice over 30 miles North of Oliktok Point. Despite the spotty service, Nome carries on, as telecommunications...
EN ROUTE TO NOME–Nenana’s Mayor Joshua Verhagen hands off the box with the diphtheria antitoxin to Jonathan Hayes in a reenactment of the serum run that began January 27 in front of the Nenana railroad depot.
The Serum Run centennial celebration is here and Nome as well as Nenana are hosting events in honor of the historic event that commemorates the transport of lifesaving diphtheria serum run by relay...
LISTENING— The Nome Common Council listens to public comments during the Monday, January 27,2025 meeting at City Hall.
The Nome Common Council spent most of its short meeting on Monday discussing the ask of the Nome School District to pre-fund upgrades to the entrances at Nome-Beltz and the Nome Elementary School for...
DELIVERING THE SERUM— Gunnar Kaasen reenacted his arrival in Nome for a photographer to capture his dog team, with Balto in lead. Kaasen delivered the serum in the early morning hours of Feb. 2, 1925.
“With the arrival of Gunnar Kaasen on Monday morning with the package containing 300,000 units of diphtheria antitoxin a great strain was lifted from the minds of many of the population of Nome,”...

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