At a public hearing during their Tuesday, March 3 meeting the Nome Planning Commission voted in favor of a variance application to relax setbacks requirements on the internal property lines at the site of a proposed Kiewit 186-person man camp.
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How do the dogs find the trail?
Looking at the Iditarod coverage and listening to the stories of mushers going through ground storms and big snow drifts one might wonder: How do these dogs find the trail?
Well, for one, the dogs really want to...
At a public hearing during their Tuesday, March 3 meeting the Nome Planning Commission voted in favor of a variance application to relax setbacks requirements on the internal property lines at the site of a proposed Kiewit 186-person man camp....
In the early morning hours of March 4, a fire burned a residence in Koyuk to the ground, with one person presumed to have died.
Three people managed to get out of the house and did not report any injuries, according to Alaska State Troopers.
A...
Let’s talk about why these dogs and mushers do what they do as some Iditarod teams take their much-deserved 24-hour break close to the halfway point of the race.
Having an active dog mushing kennel is the most time consuming “hobby” one can imagine...
The 54th running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race kicked off with a snowy ceremonial start in Anchorage the morning of Saturday, March 7. The temperature hovered around 20°F and the six inches of snow that started falling the night before made...
The Iditarod is the culmination of years of dreams and planning for a dog musher.
Before attempting the race, a musher needs to acquire the necessary knowledge and understanding to manage and mush a team of 16 dogs 1,000 miles through Alaska.
Dogs...
Iditarod Insights: Up and over the Alaska Range
The trail from the foothills of the Alaska Range around Finger Lake up and over the Alaska Range at Rainy Pass and down to Rohn is some of the most spectacular landscape one can imagine.
To think of...
It’s howling windy in the Alaska Range tonight. The forecast calls for a low of -20°F and colder in Rainy Pass for the next few days with 20 to 30 mph winds and windchills down to -50°F.
That will be a tough start for this year’s competitors to...
Welcome to our annual Iditarod coverage.
The Nome Nugget newspaper has been covering dog mushing and dog races since the inaugural 408-mile All Alaska Sweepstakes sled dog race in 1908 to the first running of the Iditarod in 1973. We've seen a lot...
Wilson Hoogendorn and Oliver Tusagvik Hoogendorn of Nome summited Kilimanjaro, the tallest peak in Africa, on February 21.
The brothers are known for their outdoor exploits: They were the first to the summit of Denali before skiing down in 2019;...
The Nome Common Council in an unusual Wednesday meeting – rescheduled due to inclement weather on Monday, February 23 — passed a resolution that increased the pay for communication officers at the Nome Police Department with the goal to attract...
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