Posts by Davis Hovey

Testing will continue this summer in the Kigluaik Mountains, outside of Teller, at a site considered to be the largest graphite deposit in the country. The CEO of Graphite One wants the company to become the main supplier to the U.S. of coated spherical graphite (CSG) through the proposed Graphite Creek mining project.

This past weekend, the Nome Police Department twice responded to search-and-rescue requests for people stranded on sea ice.

Two bodies have been found between Nome and Teller, southwest of the Sinuk River Bridge. They’ve not yet been identified, but they may be the bodies of David Miller and Rex Iyatunguk, who went missing in February during a snowmachine ride to Nome.

Starting in early July, the first of almost ten cruise ships will pass through the Port of Nome. It’s expected to be the most cruise ships the city has ever had come through Nome waters in one summer.

The overall champion of this year’s Archie Ferguson/Willie Goodwin Sr. Memorial Snowmachine Race out of Kotzebue was Tre West of Nome, with a time of two hours, 23 minutes, and 42 seconds.

Out of more than a century of climate data, 2019 saw the warmest March ever recorded for the city of Nome.

62.3 million acres of land stretching from Denali National Park to the Bering Sea are included in the Bureau of Land Management’s latest draft plan for the Bering Sea-Western Interior.

Governor Mike Dunleavy and members of his administration, including the Directors of the Department of Revenue and the Office of Management and Budget, spoke with KNOM prior to the public forum on Wednesday. Dunleavy’s approach to the budget, its potential impact on programs in Western Alaska, and the governor’s proposed constitutional amendments were some of the topics discussed.

Brenda Evak addressed the public yesterday afternoon prior to her scheduled appearance at the Nome courthouse. Evak was arrested at the Nome airport on Wednesday on allegations of disorderly conduct in her confrontation with Governor Mike Dunleavy. Ultimately, the charges against her were dropped, as Nome’s District Attorney John Earthman decided not to pursue the case.