By Anna Lionas Local gold miner Shawn Pomerenke has an application out for a permit to mine for gold at a long-standing claim within city limits. Last week it was discovered some of the land he ...

By Anna Lionas Sitting as the Board of Equalization, Nome Common Council members sat down for a hearing last week between Norton Sound Health Corporation lawyers and an attorney for the City to review ...

Story and photos by Anna Lionas To laugh or not to laugh –- if that was the question, then the answer was a no brainer for audience members attending the Nome-Beltz student production of I Hate ...

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By Rick Thoman Alaska Climate Specialist Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy International Arctic Research Center/University of Alaska Fairbanks A “miracle” of modern science is the ...

By Anna Lionas The Alaska Legislature is working to finalize a tight state operating budget for 2026 with just over a week to go until the regular session is scheduled to end on May 21. The latest ...

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Jean Elizabeth Vezey, 75, of North Pole, Alaska was called to her eternal home after a brief illness on April 21, 2025 in Celina, TX, with her loving family at her side. Jean was born in 1949 in ...

Vaughn Keith Munn, 82, of Nome, Alaska, passed away peacefully at Providence Extended Care in Anchorage, Alaska on April 13, 2025, just two days shy of his 83rd birthday. He was cremated on April 16 ...

Community members took to the streets during the May 5 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Day march from City Hall to the Rec Center in Nome. Photo by Anna Lionas By Laura Robertson On Monday ...

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