Sean Milligan

The beginning of the Shaktoolik coastal berm. Photo: Anna Rose MacArthur.

Travis Savetilik stepped into the role of Shaktoolik’s Village Public Safety Officer on July 12. He graduated from the Alaska Law Enforcement Training program in Sitka a month earlier.

With winter only a few months away, Bering Air wants its planes sheltered. The airline is constructing a new hangar at the Nome Airport to support its growing operations in Western Alaska.

A long table with a gavel resting on it. American flag in background.

The Nome Common Council on Monday adopted a resolution to authorize City Manager Glenn Steckman to use up to $200,000 to repair the Nome Recreation Center boiler.

The ongoing construction at Nome Airport is only the first stage of an effort to rehabilitate both runways by October 2022. Despite the scope of the project, however, officials say construction is not expected to interfere with normal airport operations.

Cirty of Nome council chambers room. View from podium looking towards empty tables with chairs.

The Nome Common Council will convene tonight, July 12, for the first of two regularly scheduled meetings this month.

The Nome Common Council voted Monday night to extend the declaration of a Local Emergency in Nome due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Norton Sound Health Corporation stated that it has identified a total of seven new cases of COVID-19 in Koyuk. NSHC has determined that all seven are the result of community spread.

The Alaska Department of Transportation is doing what it calls a “rehabilitation” of Bering Street, a project that will be continuing for the rest of summer and into early fall.