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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State emergency officials are deploying response teams and have requested help from the Alaska National Guard and State Defense Force. -
The weekend’s potential storm is reminiscent of 2022’s ex-typhoon Merbok, which caused millions of dollars in damage across western Alaska. -
The blaze last summer consumed the Bering Strait School District campus and left the school without classrooms, a gym or a cafeteria. -
Troopers said the body, discovered Friday just outside city limits, was dressed in winter gear and found in an advanced stage of decomposition. -
At Elim’s ANICA grocery store, a 10-pound bag of sugar already costs $29.65, over three times as much as the same bag in Anchorage. -
Quintillion President Mac McHale says the repaired fiber optic cable will be buried even deeper after January's break due to ice scouring, its second in two years. -
Klyuchevskoy erupted shortly after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake two weeks ago. -
It’s part of a statewide exercise called Arctic Edge, which is in its fifth year operating out of Alaska. -
Superior Court Judge Romano DiBenedetto did not dispute the Alaska Commission on Judicial Conduct’s findings on his actions, after an investigation this spring. -
The Iditarod’s new Expedition Program will allow longtime backer Kjell Inge Røkke to race with outside support – unlike other competitors in the race's 52-year history.
