The Polar Cub Café’s 50-year run has come to an end. On Friday, November 28, the storied restaurant will close for meal service.

As the public comment period on a major permit application for the proposed graphite mine in the northern Kigluaik Mountains winds down, the nearest communities that would be affected by the mine are voicing their opposition.
On Monday, the lights...

With the first phase of the Port of Nome expansion beginning next year, representatives of Kiewit — the general contractor for the project — along with Bering Straits Native Corporation and the Teamsters and Operating Engineers unions held a meeting...

The Polar Cub Café’s 50-year run has come to an end. On Friday, November 28, the storied restaurant will close for meal service.
On the morning of Sunday, November 23, the morning sun was just peeking through the windows of the café, customers...

UPDATE: The pilots received what they needed to continue their journey and departed Teller on Saturday, landing in Anchorage that night.
Teller had unexpected guests arriving in the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 19 as two Chinese pilots landed a...

The Nome-Beltz Lady Nanooks volleyball put up a tough fight last week at the Alaska State 3A Championships.
On Thursday, November 13, the team went up against number one seed in the state, Valdez, and lost, 0-3. Assistant Coach Krystal Hensley said...

The delay in SNAP benefits caused immediate effects in the Bering Strait region. Community aid organizations sprang into action while local grocery stores saw fewer customers and a drop in sales.
SNAP benefits were delayed as a result of the...

About 100 residents of Brevig Mission gathered last week in a public townhall meeting hosted by the tribe, the city and the Native corporation to address concerns about a proposed graphite mine as federal regulators are soliciting public comments on...

SNAP benefits should be issued as soon as Friday, according to a spokesperson for the Alaska Department of Health, which administers the federal SNAP program in the state through the Department of Public Assistance.
“Alaska is working to send the...

Rural Alaskans know the drill. Bad weather can ground flights and interfere with one’s travel plans. Or, if it’s not the weather, flights may get grounded when the FAA’s weather reporting system does not work and commercial aircraft can’t fly...

Nome Public Schools Superintendent Jamie Burgess delivered the annual State of the Schools address to the Nome Common Council’s work session on Monday, November 10.
In her report, Burgess emphasized how a reduction of funding from the city and the...

Fifteen wrestling teams descended on the Nome-Beltz High School gymnasium last week for the second annual Dudley Homelvig Scramble competing in a three-day tournament that stretched from Thursday to Saturday afternoon.
Despite the late evening on...

Kawerak and the Nome Community Center sprang into action earlier this week to cover the gap imposed by the delay in SNAP benefit payments this month. The monthslong government shutdown resulted in a lapse in funding from the federal government to...
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