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The largest cross-country meet in Nome in twelve years took place this past Saturday. After a strong showing at the Unalakleet Invitational earlier this month, Nanook Coach Jeff Collins says his team continued its success over the weekend.

The three Nome City Manager finalists fielded questions from the public during an open forum on Tuesday night. Many of the questions concerned budget management, public safety, and the city’s long-term fiscal health. Nome’s City Council is considering John Handeland, Randy Robertson, or Glenn Steckman to be the next city’s manager.

By the end of 2019, the State hopes to have three new federal prosecutors who will focus specifically on crimes in rural Alaska. Those new positions are part of the aid package from the Department of Justice after U.S. Attorney General William Barr declared a public safety crisis earlier this year.

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

Over the course of three days, ICC members from the North Slope, Northwest Arctic, Bering Strait, and Yukon-Kuskokwim regions discussed topics ranging from ICC’s work on wildlife management to an existing co-management fisheries system in Canada.

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.

On Tuesday, Nome residents will have the chance to meet and question the three City Manager candidates during a public meeting. Those candidates are: interim City Manager John Handeland, Glenn Steckman of Pennsylvania, and Randy E. Robertson of Maryland.

The Nome-Beltz High School girls volleyball team returned from the North-South Tournament in Seward on the seventh of this month. The young team got a chance for good experience over the two days of play, playing six matches on the first day alone.