Nome public schools took the first step toward recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ Day at a school board work session last week. That’s when Superintendent Shawn Arnold proposed a resolution aimed ...

NOME, ALASKA—It’s early August in the subarctic tundra, ... The curriculum didn’t include Alaska Native history or culture, ... As administrators in the Nome school district turned over, ...

The student body at the schools served by Nome Public Schools is 11% white, 0% Black, 0.4% Asian or Asian/Pacific Islander, 1.5% Hispanic/Latino, 52.6% American Indian or Alaska Native, and 0.3% ...

Amidst the season’s second blizzard that left schools and businesses closed, Nome’s city council hunkered down for their monthly meeting on Monday. And it’s a good thing they didn’t give ...

Alaska’s 133,000 students are scattered across 53 school districts, many located in vast stretches of roadless terrain.Like Nome (population 3,800), perched on the coast 540 miles northwest of ...

"Icebound," which tells the ugly truth of the 1925 serum run to Nome, brings back memories for one survivor of the diphtheria epidemic.