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We take many things for granted. The water flowing out of the tap. The clean air we breathe. The groceries available to us at the store. And the local newspaper.
The Nome Nugget is one of...
The Nome Common Council is on track to pass a budget for fiscal year 2027, but all present council members agreed on Monday that the final product still needs a bit of work before its final passage...
The Nome Planning Commission accepted a proposal for the flow of traffic from the Kiewit crew camp to be constructed at Steadman and 6th Avenue this summer. Kiewit is the contractor for Phase 1A of...
On April 28, 2009, the Inuit Circumpolar Council delivered the first in what has become a series of formal statements grounded in the right to self-determination: the Circumpolar Inuit Declaration on...
On the afternoon of Tuesday, May 5, Nomeites marched down Front Street from the UAF Northwest Campus to Anvil City Square to commemorate Missing and Murdered Indigenous Person’s Day. Some people...
Last Thursday, April 30, a crowd of young people gathered around a table in the Mini Convention Center as Roy Ashenfelter lead a demonstration on processing salmon with an ulu.
Earlier in the day,...
For the first time in Teller’s municipal existence, residents can be hopeful that a piped water and sewer system will be installed in the community.
Last week, the Indian Health Service announced...
A monthslong search for Kelly Hunt that frustrated family members over a perceived lack urgency from investigators culminated last week when Anchorage police said they found the body of the 19-year-...
On Friday afternoon, April 17, in downtown Anchorage, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, arrived at the Arctic Encounter Summit at the Dena’ina Convention Center, an annual gathering of policymakers,...
The snow has barely melted off Nome’s roads and fine dust kicked up by cars or the wind already becomes a nuisance and more than that, a health hazard.
Nome Eskimo Community Executive Director Emma...