A newly built bridge in Tes soum of Uvs Province collapsed on Saturday during a heavy rain.

No Permanent Winter Ice and Early Break Up For Nome

Previously, the dredging started around May and ran through October, but the past three winters it has started earlier and run longer.

An ice road near Deline, N.W.T. is closed after a fuel tanker plunged through on Saturday.

Nome was hit by unseasonably warm temperatures and strong winds.

River erosion damaging pedestrian walkway

South winds blew out most of the sea ice. Going to be bad ice if it refreezes for spring hunt.

Warm weather has made for unsafe traveling conditions, including a snowmachine race.

DOT spokesperson Shannon McCarthy said the weather this week -- alternately freezing and thawing -- was likely the culprit.

By this time of the year, we usually have 2-3 miles of shore-fast ice that sticks to our beach. We as a village have not done our winter harvest of seals and walrus, and we are worried that we will not be able to bowhead whale hunt.

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Much of the state became one heck of an ice rink over the weekend, with temperatures spiking into the 40s in much of Southcentral Alaska and thawing reported as far north as Fairbanks.

Lack of sea ice affects seal hunting.