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.

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.

As the main regional center, Nome, which houses around 3,600 people, stands closest to the plane's final transmitted position ...

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 ...

Nome, with a population of just 3,600, is the closest major settlement to where it dropped off the radar. White Mountain, to the north of the plane's last tracked location, has a population below 200.

On an epic road trip, a family plots a course from Alaska to the Lower 48, passing through some of Canada’s most spectacular scenery. The tally: 2,200 miles, five national parks, numerous hot ...

Plane vanishes over Alaska as desperate search launched - map shows last known location. ... Bering Air serves 32 villages in western Alaska from hubs in Nome, Kotzebue and Unalakleet.

The Bering Air flight from Unalakleet to Nome in Alaska went missing on Thursday with nine passengers and a pilot on board - and an active ground search is now underway.