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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
On February 19, Gambell residents saw strange contrails in the skies above, approaching from the west, making a wide U-turn in the bright blue sky over the island and flying back west.
About 15...
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Last week, almost exactly a year after Bering Air flight 445 crashed on the sea ice en route from Unalakleet to Nome, killing all nine passengers and the pilot, four families of crash victims filed...