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Update: Nome City Clerk Bryant Hammond said in an email that police department phone lines are up and running again, but to keep the 907-304-1192 phone number handy  "in case there’s an emergency ...
THREE PHASES— U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Project Manager Jathan Garrett walked the public through the proposed three phases of the Port of Nome expansion
Public safety, the lack of engagement with tribal governments, concerns about subsistence opportunities, a pending federal marine mammal harassment authorization and the long-term planning of the...
CLASS OF 2023— Graduates of Nome-Beltz High School celebrated their commencement on Tuesday, May 16 at the NBHS gym.
Tuesday, May 16 was Graduation Day for 39 seniors of Nome-Beltz High School.  Following a tradition started during the COVID-19 pandemic, students paraded through town in the beds of decorated trucks...
At the beginning of this past school year, the administration of Nome-Beltz Middle/High School installed sensors in a set of its bathrooms to detect vaping among students. Principal Teriscovkya...
 A delegation from the NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center visited Nome last week: Maggie Mooney Seus, AFSC communications program manager; Michale Cameron, the polar ecosystems program manager at the AFSC’s Marine Mammal Laboratory; Bob Foy, the AFSC science and research director; Mabel Baldwin-Schaeffer, AFSC tribal coordinator.
The Bering Sea region is front and center for federal fisheries researchers after the 2019 heatwave produced extreme change in the marine ecosystem. That’s according to Bob Foy, the Juneau-based...
Assessor Arne Erickson answered questions during a
It was standing room only in Council Chambers at City Hall last Wednesday as property owners, who had appealed the assessment of their property values, wanted their cases heard before the Board of...
MMIP MARCH— Nomeites marched to demand justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons, on Friday, May 5.
Nome recognized National Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day last week. A group convened on Friday afternoon to remember and demand justice for lost relatives whose deaths and...
Health and wildlife officials confirmed a dramatic rise in rabid foxes in Nome and the region, after a winter of increased fox attacks on dogs and people. According to an ADF&G press release, of...
Seven months into his job as Alaska’s missing and murdered Indigenous persons (MMIP) investigator, Lonny Piscoya says he’s making progress. His team is growing and cracking open new leads in at least...
Update, Tuesday, May 2, 2023: Nome student Timothy Erickson, who just turned 18 last month, was arrested at Nome-Beltz Middle and High School on Monday and taken to Anvil Mountain Correctional...

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