Ben Townsend
Ben Townsend is the news director at our partner station KNOM in Nome. Reach him at ben.townsend@knom.org.
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Three teams hit the trail earlier this month for a reenactment of the 1925 Serum Run to Nome, a legendary effort that is credited with saving the town from diphtheria. -
Jennifer Homendy told KNOM that the agency will likely issue its first report on the crash in roughly a month. -
The passengers were all adults. Several were from the Anchorage area, two were from Unalakleet and the pilot and one passenger were from Nome. -
The Coast Guard said three people were found dead inside of the plane, and it's clear from the wreckage there were no survivors. -
The 71-year-old Golovin Democrat, who was flown to Anchorage last week after suffering a medical emergency, thanked those who prayed for him Monday. -
The apparent cable break is in a similar location to an outage in 2023 that left customers without internet for 14 weeks. -
The company says a new 950-mile fiber optic cable from Nome to Homer should offer redundancy against undersea damage that caused a major outage in 2023. -
The Alaska Native villages had sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture over a telecommunications grant issued without their approval. -
The massive Graphite One project could become the largest U.S. source of the mineral as China reviews graphite exports. -
Staff were doubled for this year's revision of the original 2019 report, which documents climate change effects statewide.
