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A verbal set-to outside a residence in Teller turned fatal early morning July 14, resulting in the death of William Johnson, 31.
Alaska State Trooper Timothy Smith, based in Nome, responded to a...
One evening early this month, Frank Anderson, 58, refreshed himself at local bars, decided to right a wrong he thought had been done a woman friend, and grabbed a gun.
The court and law enforcement...
A Nome policeman answered a domestic violence call in the 500 block of East Third Avenue around 11 p.m. on July 11 and came out of the residence with a knife wound to his left side.
A suspect, Frank...
NJUS staff and City of Nome’s public works department have been set to welcome the Vitus Energy fuel barge coming over the horizon bringing diesel fuel to add to existing inventory to bring the...
After a year of internal and external investigations involving the regional Norton Sound Health Corporation and a longtime doctor, two conflicting tales emerge that try to shed light on a doctor, the...
At their meeting Monday evening, the Nome Common Council drank a lot of coffee and spent a little cash, but otherwise had a light agenda.
The panel, all present except Mark Johnson, attending by...
Nome hosted its first cruise ship of the summer, the Silver Discoverer, on Friday, July 7. The vessel, with a relatively small capacity of 128 passengers, was a warm-up for what is to come. Four more...
On June 29, a 12-person jury found Rayne Aukongak guilty on four counts of misconduct involving a controlled substance in the third degree, including possession and distribution of heroin.
Aukongak...
Two Alaskan pilots, Marshall Severson and Dan Billman, flew from Nome across the dateline to Provideniya and back in Severson’s Cessna 172 on June 14. The entire trip took only a day—it’s just three...
The larvae of Geometer moths have stripped the leaves from patches of willows along Dexter Bypass and left the bushes brown.
Darrell Williams Sr. noticed the willows turning brown near his home on...