This month, state officials voted unanimously to change the names of a creek and a hill on an Aleutian island in response to proposals arguing they were offensive and arbitrary. The features in ...

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A pilot and his two young ... that was overweight by half a ton crashed onto sea ice in the Norton Sound, near Nome on the state’s western coast.

Alaska has few roads, leaving many communities to rely on small airplanes to get around. Last month 10 people died when a small commuter plane that was overweight by half a ton crashed onto sea ice in ...

another company continues to use Nome as the setting for a gold-mining reality TV show. Bering Sea Gold, focused on the miners who dredge for gold in Nome’s Norton Sound, has aired for 18 seasons on ...

Alaska, a regularly scheduled commuter flight that traverses the Norton Sound, when it crashed on Feb. 6. The plane was initially reported missing but was found atop a "large floating icepack" the ...

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The crash was the third fatal civilian aviation incident in the U.S. in less than a week and one of Alaska’s deadliest ... the plane to go down on the Norton Sound sea ice.

It was initially reported missing but was found the next day on ice floating in Alaska’s Norton Sound. The icepack, which was subject to the tidal ocean currents, continuously moved about 5 to ...

The 10 people killed in the crash are: Clint Johnson, the NTSB’s Alaska chief ... 32 miles east of Nome and 12 miles offshore over Norton Sound. Third-party satellite data eight seconds later ...