It’s been almost a decade since Nome last hosted the United Youth Courts of Alaska Conference. And with Nome hosting, the conference had a few unique elements, like the lighting of a traditional seal oil lamp known as a qullik to open the event.

The fleshy but sweet smell of rendered seal fat wafted throughout the front of the room.

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The Nome Common Council voted Monday to set the city’s contribution to Nome Public Schools (NPS) at $3 million for fiscal year 2027, following extensive debate over the city budget and testimony from students who urged council members to invest more in local schools.

The council vote came after the NPS Board of Education approved its budget at a

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Young racers fired up their snowmachines in Nome on Sunday for the first Mini Cannonball 200 and 600, youth versions of the annual adult Cannonball 150. The Bering Sea Lions Club hosted the inaugural event, where athletes as young as seven years old took to the course. 

Mini Cannonball 200

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The Emmonak Women’s Shelter first took shape in the late 1970’s. Joann Horn, now the shelter’s executive director, has been involved with the shelter for nearly three decades — first as someone in need of help.

“I’m a survivor of domestic violence. I ended up there at the shelter program when it first began, with the ladies that started that,” Horn...

Ask anyone at the Unalakleet School what Carol Mooers did for the K-12 campus, and you won’t get a quick answer.

Mooers’ official job title was counselor, but she also served as a Spanish and French teacher. She ran the school’s National Honor Society program and helped current and former students apply for financial aid.

Mooers’ role extend...