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By Diana Haecker
The filing deadline to declare candidacy for municipal office ended on Tuesday, August 30 at 5 p.m. and keeping with a trend over the past years, the appetite to run for city...
By Peter Loewi
More than three weeks have passed since U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski introduced the Arctic Commitment Act to Congress, but the communities of the region, which feature prominently in...
By Peter Loewi
Just two weeks after the topic of Nome being powered by a micro-nuclear reactor came up during a meeting with the Governor, Associate Vice Chancellor of Research at the University of...
By Peter Loewi
“I tell people that our agency is here to save the world, and I mean it,” Dr. Rick Spinrad said. The Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration visited Nome...
By Diana Haecker
After alerting the region to very high levels of harmful algal blooms west of Kotzebue and Gambell two weeks ago, scientist onboard the research vessel Norseman II have found even...
By Peter Loewi
Following last week’s announcement that the United Kingdom had approved Moderna’s “bivalent” COVID vaccine which partially targets the wildtype of the virus and partially targets the...
By Megan Gannon
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has requested that its legal dispute with IPOP play out in an Alaska federal court.
The Nevada-based outfit IPOP seeks to dredge for gold in the...
By Peter Loewi
Despite continuing to see “a smattering of cases” across the region, as Norton Sound Health Corporation’s Medical Director Dr. Mark Peterson called it, last week’s COVID-19 tribal...
By Diana Haecker
Researchers stepping off the research vessel Norseman II in Nome last weekend, brought significant news of having found very high concentrations of a phytoplankton called...
By Peter Loewi
Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski last week introduced to the Senate the Arctic Commitment Act, addressing Arctic security, shipping, and research, among other topics she deemed national...
