Sports

NYO— Champion Patricia Washington of St. Michael, carried by Earl Annogiyuk of Savoonga and Alvin Washington of St. Michael, competes on her winning attempt in last week’s BSSD NYO games at White Mountain.

NYO competition held in White Mountain

The Native Youth Olympics season is the finale of western Alaska’s high school and junior high sports. After a year of serious competition that doesn’t always have a lot of camaraderie involved,...

NYO WRIST CARRY— Paris Hebel hangs on while Nate Cushman, left, and Elden Cross run him around the perimeter of the gym in the Wrist Carry event during last weekend’s NYO Extravaganza in Nome.

NYO Extravaganza showcases skills, strength

Nome's three-day Native Youth Olympics Extravaganza took place April 4- 6 and about 75 young people competed in the traditional strength and skill events. This is the third year for the Extravaganza...

Tre West won the Archie Ferguson/Willie Goodwin Snowmachine Race in Kotzebue in record time.

Tre West wins Kotzebue snowmachine race in record time

The annual Archie Ferguson/Willie Goodwin Sr. Memorial Snowmachine Race went off on schedule after organizers feared that the course wouldn’t be suitable for race day, Saturday, April 6. Warm...

Jon Smith competes in the Northern Area Championships in Fairbanks.

Nome Northstar Swim Team places fourth in Northern Area Championships in Fairbanks

A contingent of 25 Nome Northstar Swim Team members competed last week in the Northern Area Championships at the Hamme Pool in Fairbanks. They joined stiff competition from two Fairbanks swim teams,...

RED LANTERN— Nome’s Howard Farley presented the Red Lantern to Victoria Hardwick of Bethel, during the Red Lantern Banquet on Monday, March 18.

Bethel musher brings Iditarod to close

By Diana Haecker With Red Lantern musher Victoria Hardwick of Bethel arriving under the burled arch in Nome on Monday, March 18 at 1:51 p.m. Iditarod XLVII came to an official end. Hardwick finished...

Iditarod champion Pete Kaiser claims the throne with his lead dogs Morrow and Lucy.

Pete Kaiser of Bethel wins Iditarod XLVII

Wind-driven snow blowing through Front Street and the late hour did not keep throngs of Iditarod fans from coming to the finish line as Bethel’s Pete Kaiser, 31, became the 2019 Iditarod champion at...

IN UNALAKLEET—Nic Petit checks in at Unalakleet

Lead changes on the race up the coast

After what appeared to be a snow-filled race start allowing a steady pace through the Alaska Range mushers met with areas of sparse snow and unforgiving tussocks going into the Iditarod checkpoint,...

OFF THEY GO— Nome’s Aaron Burmeister and kennel partner Tony Browning take off at the ceremonial Iditarod start in Anchorage, Saturday, March 1.

Iditarod XLVII: 52 mushers are on their way to Nome

Bright sun and blue skies brought out big crowds to watch 52 mushers launch down 4th Avenue in Anchorage for the 47th ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The 2019 Iditarod...

INTO THE STORM— Team 10 leaves Nome into the teeth of a storm and low visibility, Thursday, Feb. 21. They won the Iron Dog a few days later.

Mike Morgan and Chris Olds win 2019 Iron Dog again

The 2019 Iron Dog is in the history books and the winners are Mike Morgan of Nome and his Team 10 partner Chris Olds of Eagle River. Last year they won by just over four minutes and this year they...

Team 10, Morgan and Olds, won last year's Iron Dog. Here they are pictured arriving first in Nome.

Local teams compete in 2019 Iron Dog

The 2019 Iron Dog Snowmobile Race blasts off from Deshka Landing at 11 a.m. Sunday, February 17. Forty-eight pro-class two-man teams will contest the 2,000-mile race through wild, remote Alaska in...