Sports
One girl from Unalakleet was the sole athlete in Unalakleet’s first track and field season.
In her first season ever, she qualified for state and then went on to win the 400 meter sprint in the ASAA...
Cody Sherman, Bubba McDaniel and Shayla Johnson won their respective classes in the Cannon Ball snowmachine race, held Saturday, April 15, in Nome. Under perfectly sunny skies and no wind, 27 racers...
By Miriam Trujillo
The Nome Nanook Basketball season is over, as the boys went all the way to the finals of the state basketball championships and took second place in the game against Grace...
By Megan Gannon
George Lambert won the Nome-Golovin snowmachine race on Sunday. Riding a Ski-Doo 850 and wearing bib number 5, Lambert was racing in the open class. He finished the 200-mile race...
By Megan Gannon
The 51st Iditarod began last weekend with 33 mushers and their teams of 14 dogs bound for Nome on a 1,000-mile journey through the Alaskan wilderness.
The clock officially started...
By Megan Gannon
After a 2,500-mile race marked by tough conditions and brutal weather, the pro snowmachine racers competing in this year’s Iron Dog made it to the finish line in Big Lake under a...
By Megan Gannon
It was just around 3 p.m. on Monday when the first headlights appeared on Front Street in Nome.
The Iron Dog, the world’s longest cross-country snowmachine competition, marks its...
By Megan Gannon
With a two-day competition that covered about 50 miles in total, the Nome Kennel Club hosted its third race of the season over the weekend.
Three mushers and their dog teams left from...
Four mushers and their dog teams competed against each other in the Nome Kennel Club’s second race of the season on Saturday, Feb. 4. Handlers, race officials and spectators gathered at Nome’s snow...
By Melissa Ford,
NNST Head Coach
The Nome Northstar Swim Team had a group of swimmers competing at the Hamme Pool in Fairbanks last weekend for the 2023 Sweetheart Invite. NNST placed fourth in...