Nome News

Joan Naviyuk Kane feels the pull of an ancestral place where she's never been, a crumbling ghost village built on stilts across the rocky face of a remote western Alaska island.

Second quarter results are in: The U.S. Postal service lost another $1.9 billion.

The central and eastern United States are not the only areas experiencing a colder-than-average spring.

A Fairbanks man who broke both his legs while climbing a mountain north of Nome is awake after spending more than a week in a coma.

David Mastolier, co-owner of the M/V Qualifier 105, recently brought his vessel north after purchasing it in California.

The blurb: Influenced by her own experience during the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Mei Mei Evans' novel centers on a down-on-his-luck skipper and his lone deckhand as an oil spill threatens the coast community of Selby.

A Fairbanks mountain climber was rescued from a mountain north of Nome on Saturday after breaking both legs in a fall the day earlier.

Pushing his fully loaded, 115-pound fatbike through snowdrifts and 35 mph headwinds going across Norton Sound between Shaktoolik and Koyuk, for example, a 50-mile stretch that took him 19 hours.