Student charged after bringing firearm onto Nome-Beltz campus

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 A male student at Nome-Beltz Middle High School has been charged with Terroristic Threatening in the second degree and Misconduct involving weapons in the fourth degree after being taken into custody the morning of January 6 after bringing a firearm onto school grounds.
No one was injured in the incident. 

According to a letter released by Nome Public Schools Superintendent Jamie Burgess just after 2 p.m. on January 6, the weapon was unloaded. Initially she wrote that students made staff aware that a student had brought a firearm to school at around 9:30 a.m. This timeline was updated in a follow-up letter on January 9 letter to roughly 10:30 a.m.

After being notified, staff initiated a “stay in place” response and called the Nome Police Department.

Nome Police Officer Dylan Howard told The Nugget in an interview that the Nome Police Department was dispatched at 10:31 a.m. and arrived at the campus seven minutes later. The officers met with the school administration, who told them they suspected that a student had a firearm. The principal fetched the student from class, and he indeed admitted to having the firearm in his pocket.

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Shareholders ask BSNC to divest from ICE contracts

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Bering Straits Native Corporation faces criticism from shareholders regarding the corporation’s involvement in federal contracts to aid in the detention and removal of asylum seekers, illegal immigrants and migrants.

BSNC has in the past ten years secured lucrative contracts with the federal government, specifically the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to perform service related to migrant detention and removal.

Since the second Trump administration’s aggressive policies to round up and deport migrants and asylum seekers, the Native corporation’s participation in business contracts with DHS and ICE has come under renewed scrutiny by shareholders.

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Jan 6, 2026 Regional Links

Empty shelves at Nome’s grocery stores last week bore witness to a severe backlog of freight that didn’t make it to Nome for the holidays.

Starting last week, Alaska Air Cargo has stopped accepting new freight in Anchorage until their cargo backlog is cleared. Last week, Alaska Airlines cancelled two passenger flights: one due to a mechanical issue and the other because of crew. Freighter cancellations during the same week were caused by unexpected mechanical problems, while the previous week’s freighter cancellations were due to weather, Alaska Airlines spokesperson Tim Thompson told the Nugget. He said that two out of the five freighters are out of service due to mechanical issues. (READ MORE - nomenugget.com)