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Western Alaska Celebrates Its Seniors With Parades To Cap Off COVID-19 Semester

By Davis Hovey | May 20, 2020 | 0 Comments

35 Nome-Beltz High School seniors have officially graduated and received their diplomas. Special accommodations were made for Wednesday night’s graduation ceremony, and for other Class of 2020 graduates across Western Alaska, given the current coronavirus pandemic.

Graduation 2020 Call-In Show

By Karen Trop | May 21, 2020 | 0 Comments

To honor all those graduating from high school in Western Alaska, people from around the region called in to congratulate seniors graduating in 2020.

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Nome's Norton Sound Regional Hospital. Photo: Margaret DeMaioribus/KNOM (2016)

Bering Strait Region Once Again COVID Free With No Confirmed Cases Currently

By Davis Hovey | June 5, 2020

NSEDC Finalizes COVID-19 Commercial Fishing Plans, Regulates Mostly Local Fleet

By Emily Hofstaedter | June 5, 2020
Ravn passengers can now fly directly to Kotzebue from Anchorage and back. Photo Credit: Davis Hovey, KNOM (2017).

If Ravn Air Finds A Buyer The Airline Could Avoid Liquidating Everything

By Emily Hofstaedter | June 5, 2020

Gambell Seamstress Keeps Knowledge of Traditional Siberian Yupik Sewing Alive

By JoJo Phillips | June 4, 2020
Golovin, AK

Fish River Fire & Several Blazes Contained Before Reaching White Mountain

By Davis Hovey | June 4, 2020
Sikuliaq, Nome, AK, 2015

COVID Concerns Thwart NOAA and Other Researchers’ Plans to Study a Bering Sea In Flux

By Davis Hovey | June 3, 2020

Another Climate Record Broken: May, 2020 was Nome’s Warmest May Ever

By Davis Hovey | June 2, 2020
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The KNOM Newsletter (Nome Static), Transmission 672: June 2020

Hospital Screens 10% for COVID-19

Foster Families Get Free Internet At Home

‘Unserviced’: No Water, No Sewer

Poetry on the Airwaves

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Elder Voices

Raymond Seetok, Sr., of Wales, Alaska.

Elder Voices: Raymond Seetok, Sr.

April 15, 2020
Golovin, AK

Elder Voices: Agnes Amarok

February 28, 2020
Craggy, grassy island cliff and shoreline, wrapped in mist

Elder Voices: Vince Pikonganna

January 27, 2020
Mary Jane Litchard sitting in front of a microphone.

Elder Voices: Mary Jane Litchard

December 19, 2019