JBER, ALASKA – The Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHS&EM), in partnership with Kawerak Inc., hosted a rural resiliency workshop for the Bering Straits and Norton Sound region. Representatives from 16 communities met in Nome for three days. This workshop provided an opportunity for community leaders to work with DHS&EM and state […]
A few Alaska researchers recently accepted a surprise assignment of giving Jerry Brown a tour of the Seward Peninsula. The California governor was stopping in Nome on his way to a meeting in Russia. The 79-year-old environmentalist and leader of a state that resembles a progressive nation wanted to learn why the far north matters. […]
AST reported today that a Nome man was indicted by a grand jury on charges of Misconduct Involving Controlled Substances following an investigation by the Western Alcohol and Narcotics team in Nome. The indictment against 57-year-old Nome resident David Fergerson was the result of the WAANT investigation that revealed that Fergerson “was in possession of […]
Two people were seriously injured in a vehicle rollover at mile seven of the Council Highway in Nome and the driver was arrested on Tuesday, according to AST. Troopers in Nome responded to the scene along the highway to find that while traveling on the highway after 6 pm on Tuesday, driver, 32-year-old Michael Hahn […]