JUNEAU -- A road to Nome has been a dream for years or decades, but the project that was put on the front burner by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been moved to the back burner by current Gov ...

JUNEAU, Alaska, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has revived a long-held state dream of building a road to the remote Bering Sea outpost of Nome, observers said.

Boomers talked for decades about building a road to Nome, an epic 500-mile plus project that would run through some of the most remote wilderness of forest, tundra, rivers and valleys in the world.

Workers with the state and Knik Construction hauled over 100,000 tons of material in order to make the Nome-Council road passable again before freeze-up.

Alaska Missing Plane: Map Shows Where Bering Air Flight Disappeared. Published Feb 07, 2025 at 11:32 AM EST Updated Feb 07, ... The city of Nome, Alaska pictured on Tuesday, March 14, 2023.

No one in Alaska’s state government is saying where the money would come from to build the first foot of a project that could cost close to $3 billion, so the road remains an idea whose time ...

As Alaska legislators confront a major state budget deficit, the state Senate on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve a “bare bones” $162 million capital budget to pay for construction and ...

FAIRBANKS — A public hearing on a proposed road connecting Fairbanks to Nome drew about 50 people to the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center on Monday night.