Sports
The Nome Recreation Center parking lot was so full on Saturday evening prior to the championship game of the Men’s A Division at the 43rd Annual Lonnie O’Connor Iditarod Basketball Classic that...
Mitch Seavey, 57, of Sterling, Alaska won the 2017 Iditarod on Tuesday afternoon in a record-breaking time of eight days, three hours, 40 minutes and 13 seconds on the trail, shattering his son...
“Those top, maybe up to 20 mushers used to stop at my house,” said Grace Morris while looking out over Norton Bay as her picturesque, spruce-filled hometown of Koyuk began welcoming the first wave of...
The pattern of bitter cold or super blustery weather that hampered Nome much of the winter let up just in time for this year’s field of 39 snowmachine racers to head out Saturday on the annual 200-...
Seventy-two mushers from Alaska, the Lower 48, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, England, Sweden and Norway are on their way to Nome, making their way westward on the Yukon, which reportedly...
Seasoned Iron Dog competitors know that to finish The World's Longest Toughest Snowmachine Race they must save as many precious ticks of the clock as possible while keeping their rig’s mechanical...
FIRST IN NOME— Iron Dog Team 16, Todd Minnick and Nick Olstad reached the halfway point Nome on Tuesday at 3:27 p.m. Their trail time was 21 hours, 19 minutes and 25 seconds. On Thursday morning, the...
What if a basketball tournament was held and a track meet broke out? The Brevig Mission Huskies and Shishmaref Northern Lights boys answered that question during the championship match of the Norton...
It has been no secret to Nanooks fans that Nome’s varsity boys basketball season has not gone as well as the players had hoped. The Nanooks squad, however, got the proverbial “monkey off their backs...
The rivalry that played out Saturday night in the Nome-Beltz gym might not quite match the status of the Green Bay Packers versus the Chicago Bears or the Boston Red Sox versus the New York Yankees,...