To build a home in Nome, Alaska, is to take an encyclopedia’s worth of knowledge about ideal construction conditions and heave that text directly into the Bering Sea. From erecting wooden structures ...

For me, the most compelling stories are the ones with no answers, and the true story of Nome, Alaska, proves that truth can be stranger than fiction. Over the years, roughly two dozen people from Nome ...

Authorities said a commuter plane crashed in western Alaska on its way to Nome and was located Friday on sea ice. All 10 people on board died. The Bering Air Caravan was heading from Unalakleet to ...

NOME, Alaska -- To the unimaginative eye, the view of Nome, Alaska, from Joy Baker's well-heated SUV looked like a whole lot of nothing: The early winter sun was sliding below the horizon barely four ...

Authorities are conducting a search for a Bering Air plane—which was flying to the coastal city of Nome, Alaska, with 10 people on board—after it was reported missing Thursday. FILE PHOTO: A man walks ...

A Cessna plane that crashed while as it was flying to Nome, Alaska, last month, killing all 10 people on board, was hundreds of pounds too heavy for icing conditions, a National Transportation Safety ...

Nome, Alaska—population 3,600, myself included—is one of the most remote places in North America. Entirely disconnected from the continent’s road system, it has two gas stations, two pizza joints, ...

This story was produced through a partnership with National Native News with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Fund for Investigative Journalism. NOME, Alaska – The two cops ...

The city of Nome, on Alaska’s Bering Sea coast, has long been the home of adventurers, chancers, and the fiercely independent who would rather live off the land than do their shopping at Walmart.