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Photo by Jim Dau By Kate Persons Raptors are famous for dramatic and aerobatic courtship displays, and to my eyes, the northern harrier wins the gold. The extraordinary sky dance of a male harrier is ...

By Diana Haecker In a series of meetings in Teller, Brevig Mission and Nome last week, Graphite One Alaska updated the public on their plans to develop a graphite mine on the northern slopes of the ...

EJ Reeder, (also known as Jani) of Henrietta, Mo. passed away at Centerpoint Hospital in Independence, Mo. Monday night, January 20, 2020 of complications from cancer. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska, ...

By Diana Haecker In work session after work session, the Nome Common Council is fine combing the city’s fiscal year 2026 budget, trying to balance the budget while keeping services to citizens intact ...

By Anna Lionas State Sen. Donny Olson (D-Golovin) is still recovering from a health issue earlier this year that took him out of the legislative session for six weeks. Olson returned to the state ...

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 ...

LOVE ALASKA– A dog team mushes on the river, heading out of Fairbanks and to Nome, while a crowd of Fairbanksians move around on the frozen Chena. Photo By Anna Lionas DOG CROSSING–Traffic holds off ...

Julie Whittaker, who helped establish village-based mental health counseling in several Norton Sound villages from 1996 to 1999, died in her home in Anchorage on April 26 at age 59. Julie had been ...

Former Alaskan Lawrence E. “Lonny” Heiner was born on August 24, 1938 in Grand Junction, Colorado, to Larry and Lola Heiner, and died on November 14, 2019 at home in Anacortes, Washington. When he was ...

Emma S. Ottema passed away peacefully at home on March 14, 2020. She was born to Willie and Elsie Kugzruk in Teller, Alaska June 19, 1946. One of eleven siblings, she is survived by one brother, ...