---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171843-25-005629"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NG"
cik: "0001173420"
company_name: "NOVAGOLD RESOURCES INC"
filed_at: "2025-08-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T09:23:27.269638+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.05
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.05
confidence: "medium"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# NOVAGOLD adopts amendments to Code of Business Conduct and Ethics

## Summary
- Board approved revisions to Code relating to competition, fair dealing, and securities transactions on August 27, 2025.
- Amendments clarify existing policies and reflect current organizational practices.
- No waiver of any provision was granted to any officer, director, or employee.
- Full amended Code is available on the company's website.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171843-25-005629
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NG
- cik: 0001173420
- company_name: NOVAGOLD RESOURCES INC
- filed_at: 2025-08-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.05
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.05
- confidence: medium
- sec_items: 5.05
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1173420/000117184325005629/0001171843-25-005629-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1173420/000117184325005629/f8k_082825.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  NOVAGOLD RESOURCES INC: Amended the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics relating to competition and fair dealing and reiterating the prohibition of certain securities transactions (effective 2025-08-27).
  - Change: code of ethics
  - Effective: 2025-08-27
  source text: Effective August 27, 2025, the Board of Directors of NOVAGOLD RESOURCES INC. (the “Company”) approved the adoption of amendments to the code of ethics for the Company, known as the NOVAGOLD RESOURCES INC. Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (the “Code”) relating to competition and fair dealing, and reiterates the prohibition of certain types of transactions of the Company’s securities.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1173420/000117184325005629/0001171843-25-005629-index.htm

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