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For more than a year the Nome Common Council had wrestled with the task updating Nome’s taxicab licensing ordinance.
On Monday, the deed was done as the council unanimously voted to get rid of a cap...
Landline phones at several businesses, offices and residences across Nome were down or experienced intermittent outages for over a week. As of February 2, many landlines were functional again.
The...
Members of the U.S. Coast Guard, Alaska Air National Guard, the Alaska Department of Military and Veteran’s Affairs and Special Operations Command North visited Nome last Tuesday for a meeting with...
Grappling with the stark reality that Nome currently has no legal taxi cab service taking people from A to B, the Nome Common Council continues to be under pressure to amend the current taxi cab...
A familiar face will be returning to serve at the helm of the Nome Police Department as former NPD Chief Mike Heintzelman was hired on a six-month contract to become interim Chief of Police.
Chief...
A Nome man was charged with four counts of attempted murder in the first degree , several counts of assault, coercion, domestic violence assault and assault in the presence of children after Nome...
The Nome Port Commission in last week’s meeting focused mainly on the one action item on the docket: a proposal for a bathhouse and laundry facility located at the Small Boat Harbor.
Port Director...
Representatives from the South Korean city of Busan, the country’s largest port, visited Nome on January 6 to tour port facilities and discuss opportunities for economic, shipping and academic...
A male student at Nome-Beltz Middle High School has been charged with Terroristic Threatening in the second degree and Misconduct involving weapons in the fourth degree after being taken into...
Since January 1, no legal taxi cabs were running on Nome’s roads as the only taxi company Checker Cab has chosen to suspend their operations and to not reapply for their six cab licenses that they...