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HANDOFF—The transport crew loads planks of plywood from a riverboat into the bed of a truck in White Mountain. The materials were driven from Nome to Council on the road, and then taken by boat to White Mountain.
By RB Smith Last year, the Iditarod Historic Trail Alliance and White Mountain Native Corporation partnered to replace the existing A-frame shelter cabin between Nome and White Mountain with a new...
By Peter Loewi Two years into the pandemic, Norton Sound Health Corporation is looking to reduce the number of regular Tribal Leader COVID Calls to once-weekly, from the current twice-weekly. While...
RED LANTERN— Apayauq Reitan was the last musher to cross the finish line and bring the 2022 Iditarod to an end, on Satursday, March 19 at 11:39 p.m.
By Diana Haecker The 50th running of the Iditarod came to a close on Saturday, March 19 at 11:39 p.m. when Apayqauq Reitan crossed the finish line as the last and 37th musher to finish the race. A...
Dog teams in White Mountain rest before they headed into a storm that forced them to scratch from the race by accepting outside assistance.
By RB Smith and  Diana Haecker Last Friday, a strong ground storm in the Topkok Hills surprised a group of Iditarod mushers as they ran from White Mountain to Safety, one of the last legs of the...
By Diana Haecker The City of Nome settled a civil lawsuit with Clarice Bun Hardy in the amount of $750,000 and a public apology. Hardy, represented by the ACLU programs and the lawfirm Sonosky,...
By Peter Loewi Two years to the day since Norton Sound Health Corporation started the tribal leaders COVID calls, people from across the region continue to call in to learn about the latest regional...
Volunteers gather around Gerard Thiart as he arrived with Ed Stang in the White Mountain checkpoint.
A group of mushers, Jeff and KattiJo Deeter, Sean Williams, Sebastien Dos Santos Borges, Bridgett Watkins and Gerard Thiart left White Mountain around 4 a.m. this morning Friday, March 18. They...
By Peter Loewi Active cases in the region hit an annual low of 55, two thirds of which were in Nome. The remaining third were in six villages, up from four last week, but down from 13 villages just...
ARCTIC EAGLE— Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Mahoney, Senior Airman Lamb and Lieutenant Colonel Erik DeSoucy demonstrate some of their tools, including “Billy” during the Alaska National Guard’s Arctic Eagle/Patriot 2022 exercise held in Nome
By Peter Loewi The Alaska National Guard’s Arctic Eagle/Patriot 2022 exercise has come to a close. Participants vacated their snow caves, packed up their prototype medical tents and returned to...
By Peter Loewi COVID-19 cases rise and fall in Nome as large events sweep through town, but it appears that travel-related COVID infections are decreasing. Case numbers continued to drop across the...

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