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Profile: At Culture Camp, New Teachers Immerse in Region

By Gabe Colombo | August 23, 2017

Educators new to Alaska try their hand at cutting fish during Cultural Camp for Educators.

Educators new to Nome Public Schools and the Bering Strait School District recently got a hands-on introduction to the culture and tradition of the region at Cultural Camp for Educators.

Profile: After 70 Years, A Diomede Family Reunion

By Zoe Grueskin | August 9, 2017

Tandy Wallack, Etta Tall, and documentary filmmaker Lourdes Grobet laugh together in the the KNOM studios, where they stopped by before heading to Little Diomede for a long-awaited family reunion.

For years, growing up on the Alaskan island of Little Diomede, Etta Tall wondered about what life was like just 2.4 miles away, on Russia’s Big Diomede, where her grandfather grew up. Now, thanks to a special reunion, “I don’t wonder anymore,” she says.

Profile: Regional Public Intoxication — What Can Be Done to Curb the Issue?

By Davis Hovey | August 1, 2017

Public intoxication seems to be getting worse in western Alaska. What steps can be taken to curb the problem? And can it ever fully be addressed?

Profile: Regional Public Intoxication — The Nature of the Problem, and How to Better Manage It

By Davis Hovey | July 31, 2017

Emmonak's local option law was changed via special election vote, but then 34 votes were ineligible... Photo Credit: Creative Commons

The number of drunken-person calls Nome Police responded to more than doubled between 2015 and 2016, and that number could be even higher this year. What’s to be done?

Profile: Blue-Colored Red King Crab

By Anna Rose MacArthur | July 18, 2014

As seen in the Nome Nugget, crab fisherman Frank McFarland holds up a rare blue-colored red king crab that he caught in his commercial crabbing pots, as Frank Kavairlook Jr. looks on. Photo: Scott Kent, ADFG.

There’s a small tourist attraction going on at the Norton Sound Seafood Center. Causing the stir is a rare, blue-colored red king crab.

By 2014, a Wellness and Sobering Center in Nome

By Eva DeLappe | December 26, 2012

To respond to the need for substance abuse treatment in the Norton Sound, Norton Sound Health Corporation is planning on starting a substance abuse treatment center in Nome. The Wellness and Sobering Center will be based in the old hospital, and may open as early as fall 2014.