Posts by Davis Hovey

Plans to get a rock quarry project off the ground in Elim have hit a funding road block. So far, the projected site has been selected 20 miles southwest of the community and the sample test results on the project’s dimensional stone and rip-rap show promise. Additionally, Morris Nakaruk, the Vice President of the local…

A pair of Nome brothers have been named the keynote speakers for this year’s Elders and Youth Conference, taking place next month in Fairbanks. Oliver Tusagvik and Wilson Mungnak Hoogendorn were the first to summit Denali this season back in May. The brothers, both in their early 20s, were featured on KTVA’s Frontiers with Rhonda McBride…

Biologists say early retreating sea ice is potentially causing vegetation productivity changes on the tundra across Alaska and the Arctic.

A former Sitnasuak Native Corporation CEO will resume his role as the head of SNC while the corporation continues its search for a permanent replacement for its previous CEO, Bobbi Quintavell.

The Alaska Census Working Group is getting the word out about the upcoming 2020 U.S. Census, which is set to start in Toksook Bay this January.

Biologists in Alaska have again seen massive seabird die-offs this summer, or “wrecks,” as some experts call them, extending from May into last month.

Western Alaskans’ stories of how climate change has impacted their lives will be included in an international report set to be released later this month. IPCC and NOAA representatives were in Nome and Shishmaref this week to hear input from the region directly.

NOAA Fisheries scientists say they’ve seen signs that this year’s chinook salmon numbers are dwindling.

Marine vessels of all sizes transiting through the Arctic Ocean this season, some starting from Nome, have a couple of options for ice-free routes.

Silver salmon have shown up in the Norton Sound region this summer at above-average numbers. Though the fishing season isn’t over yet, the commercial catch of silvers is in the top five harvests for the region.