Nome News

Last week I spent time in Nome, Alaska. Plenty of sunlight next to the Arctic Circle this time of year.

On Feb. 5 Northern Air Cargo announced it had hired Deedre Nicola to complement their statewide sales team.

I was browsing a bookstore the other day for some vacation reading when I stumbled across a book I'd been waiting for, a new, hardcover novel by one of my favourite authors.

This month, instead of writing this column as usual at my desk in Hokkaido, I am writing from a desk on board the Clipper Odyssey as we cross the Gulf of Anadyr in Russia's far northeastern Chukotka region.

The federal government late Wednesday indicted the most powerful legislator yet in its wide-ranging investigation of Alaska government corruption.

Jason G. Umans MD, PhD; Jianhui Zhu PhD; Neil J. Weissman MD; and Barbara V. Howard PhD From Division of Cardiology , Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY; Norton Sound Health Corporation , Nome, Alaska; ...

Martinis are still the rage, and manhattans are on the way back. But the "it" drink of the moment is the mojito, muse of Ernest Hemingway and the millennial generation alike.

Thousands of pounds of used electronics, refrigerators, lamps, fluorescent bulbs and more are finding their way to Total Reclaim in Anchorage each month, prompting a broad smile on the face of Larry Zirkle, who ...

Many of the annoyances of summer -- from mosquito and tick bites to sunburn -- are avoided easily with preventive maintenance.

Paul Jenkins, editor of The Anchorage Times, recently wrote about the need for Alaska to find new vision and direction.

Two backpackers who sent a distress beacon about 40 miles north of Ambler when one broke his foot Monday were rescued safely, according to Alaska State Troopers.

TRAPPED in a field of treacherous pack-ice twenty miles off the Alaskan coast, the freighter Anyox, two gaping holes in her ice-crushed bow, was slowly settling to her doom.

If you've ever been on a cruise, you may have noticed there are a few older people with money aboard.

Now... here's a guy who loves to fly... all over the world! Marc Aurel Lehman took delivery of his DA40XL at Diamond's London, Ontario facility last summer.

Notable events that happened on this day West Virgina admitted as the 35th State.

Rotary International has provided humanitarian aid to remote places around the world for more than 100 years, so doing the same for isolated villages in rural Alaska made sense to Soldotna member Cliff Baker.

Longtime resident Beth Kay Ogden died peacefully on June 8, 2008, in Juneau, with her daughter and son-in-law by her side.

Submitted by Billy Hackett on Tue, 06/10/2008 - 06:04. Alaska State Troopers say a snowmachiner was killed this weekend in a crash near Nome.

Woodstove sales are hot and motor scooters are an increasing vehicle of choice as Alaskans hustle to survive rising fuel costs.

From the Bering Land Bridge to the oil pipeline, state has a storied past Alaska.com Although Alaska's statehood is relatively brief, the state's history is long and colorful.