Nome, population 3,700, is accessible only by plane outside a few months when boats can pass through. But it will be the home ...

The day before the Nome visit, Heong-joon met with Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance to sign a “Friendship City" agreement ...

Two containers packed with batteries rest near a new concrete pad at Nome Joint Utility System's powerplant. (Ben Townsend/KNOM) Utility officials in Nome are hoping a new battery system recently ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Crews began transferring 1.3 million gallons of fuel Monday from a Russian fuel tanker to the iced-in western Alaska city of Nome. The offloading began near sundown, said Stacey ...

In a tiny gold mining town on the edge of Alaska, the Trump administration is poised to begin building America's first Arctic deepwater port, with significant implications for military security and ...

Bradley George and Robby Schachle arrived in Nome on Tuesday afternoon, the first team to reach the ostensible midway point of the 2025 Iron Dog snowmachine race. The duo checked into Nome at 2:06 p.m ...

The cruise ship with about 1,000 passengers anchored off Nome, too big to squeeze into into the tundra city's tiny port. Its well-heeled tourists had to shimmy into small boats for another ride to ...

NOME, N.D. — Chris Armbrust may know how to weave fleece into yarn, but she’s not one to have the wool pulled over her eyes. So when the fiber artist/owner of the Nome Schoolhouse Inn and Event Center ...

Nome seems both unlikely and inevitable. Perched on the Seward Peninsula, it’s the westernmost sizable city in Alaska and the United States. Spawned by a gold rush, it somehow survived the frenzy ...

The story goes that a cartographer, mapping the central peninsula that jutted into Bering Strait from the Russian territory of Alaska, had no identification for the cape on its southern side. He ...