According to Alexis Erikson, Public Relations Specialist with Norton Sound Health Corporation, the first Color Run took place in 2019 and was met with strong community turnout. In October 2021, more ...

Bank Robbery Spectators packed the bleachers in front of Wells Fargo for the bank robbery reenactment, a solstice tradition staged by the Nome Regulators and Society for Historic Reenactment. With ...

Last Thursday, the cruise ship Westerdam returned to Nome after having visited the Gold Rush town last year for the first time. The eleven-deck ship seemed to dwarf town as it lay anchored in Nome’s ...

By Anna LionasThe veto resulted in a loss of $315,000 to Nome Public Schools. That is the amount they are asking from the city. The city already reduced the yearly contribution to the school district ...

By Sarah ManriquezThe juvenile male bear—over six feet long and appearing in good health—was first spotted by a family member near Woolley Lagoon, roughly 40 miles west of Nome. Wiggins was en route ...

But there are occasional big wildfire years. Since the early 1950s, fire has burned more than 2.8 million acres on the Seward Peninsula. As evident on the graphic, four years, 1954, 1957, 1971 and ...

On Saturday, kids and adults with bright yellow bags ran around Nome picking up trash. It was the last day of Nome’s spring cleanup. At Old St. Joe’s, girl scouts gave out hot dogs and City of Nome ...

The Nome Common Council passed a trimmed-down version of the fiscal year 2026 general operational budget, totaling a tad over $17 million. In work session after work session, the council and city ...

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The Nome Nugget PO Box 610 Nome, Alaska 99762 USA Phone: (907) 443-5235 Fax: (907) 443-5112 www.nomenugget.net ...

The Nome Common Council will again on March 28 consider a rate increase of 10 percent across the board at Port of Nome. At its last meeting earlier in March, the panel tabled a vote on a revised port.

Background Smith looks back at a 35-year long career of serving in local governments in his native North Carolina and in Georgia. From 2014 to 2022, he was county manager in Chatham County, Savannah, ...