Even by Alaska standards, Nome is remote, with no roads connecting it to the state’s population hubs hundreds of miles away. Supplies for its 3,600 residents have to be flown in or brought up by ...

READ MORE: Missing plane Alaska updates: Bering Air flight disappears with 10 onboard The plane appears to have made it most of the way from Unalakleet to Nome. Nome, with a population of just ...

Roughly half of Alaska's population was comprised of white settlers ... creating cities near gold strikes, including Nome and Fairbanks. In addition to the mining industry, settlers were reaping ...

The Bering Air flight that crashed near Nome last month, killing the pilot and all nine passengers, was more than 1,000 pounds too heavy for the icy weather it was flying into, acc ...