This is not Henry Allen’s Tanana River. Nor is it the Trail River of people living here thousands of years before the nineteenth-century government explorer struggled his way down the Tanana. But it seems close. I’m on a family trip down the wide brown river, starting where it arcs from the mountains to Fairbanks. Wife, […]
Although the dispatch does not reveal the details leading up to a search warrant carried out in Nome on Thursday, it did report that Nome Western Alaska Alcohol and Narcotics Team and Nome-based Alaska State Troopers carried out a search warrant on a suspected marijuana grow in that community. When officers traveled to the location in the Dexter/Triple Creek […]
Western Alaska Alcohol and Narcotics teams from Nome, Anchorage and Kotzebue, as well as DEA, Alaska State Troopers and a Nome police K-9 Unit, carried out a series of raids and buys on Wednesday in Nome, the trooper dispatch reports. According to the trooper report, authorities carried out two buy/bust operations in Nome as well […]
Nome firefighters, in five fire response vehicles, fought an apartment blaze for nearly two hours before getting it under control at approximately 9 pm on Thursday night. Nome firefighters arrived at the scene at about 7:10 pm on Thursday night, to find the eight unit apartment building, owned by the Bering Straits Native Corporation, in […]