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By Peter Loewi
Members of the Alaska Congressional delegation toured the region with state and federal officials last weekend, including Deanne Criswell, the head of the Federal Emergency Management...
By Diana Haecker
“This storm is so big that it will take about three hours for the sun to fully set on.” This was the caption to a Facebook post by the National Weather Service Alaska Region,...
By Peter Loewi
At around 7 p.m. on Saturday, September 17, the Nome Volunteer Fire Department got a call about smoke at the Bering Sea Restaurant. When NVFD Chief Jim West Jr. made it to the scene,...
By Megan Gannon
City Hall still reeked of smoke when Mayor John Handeland walked into an emergency meeting of the Nome Common Council on Monday. He was wearing a reflective jacket and holding a copy...
By Peter Loewi
Villages around Norton Sound were hard hit by the massive storm raging through western Alaska over the weekend. As the wind subsided and water levels fell by Monday, residents began...
The past 24 hours, fierce winds and rising seas have wreaked havoc in western Alaska. The widespread destruction includes dislodged fuel tanks, failing seawalls, houses dislodged from their...
By Diana Haecker
On Friday afternoon, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced its decision to deny regulatory permits for IPOP LLC, effectively nixing IPOP’s plans to mine for gold and dispose of...
By Diana Haecker
In its regular meeting on Monday, Sept. 12, the Nome Common Council decided on two resolutions and discussed a couple of property tax penalty forgiveness requests.
The first...
The National Weather Service warned of the strongest storm in a decade moving into the Bering Sea, issuing coastal flood warnings along the coast from Hooper Bay to the Bering Strait. Worst flooding...
By Diana Haecker
On Friday afternoon, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced its decision to deny regulatory permits for IPOP LLC, effectively nixing IPOP's plans to mine for gold and dispose of...