Sports
By Laura Robertson
This year, two Nome teams competed at the Native Youth Olympic Games in Anchorage during the state event held last weekend in April.
As usual, Nome-Beltz sent a team to compete...
The roar of snowmachines filled the Nome outer harbor on Saturday, as 20 Nome Cannonball snowmachine racers took off to run laps around Nome, with the harbor being the start and finish point. The...
Sirens blared and Nanook flags flew high as Nome welcomed the Nanooks home from the state basketball tournament on Sunday evening.
On Saturday, the Nanooks beat Sitka’s Wolves 62-43, bringing home...
Last weekend, Shaktoolik and Unalakleet made the region proud, bringing home two State Championship trophies from a successful weekend at the 1A and 2A Basketball States in Anchorage.
The Shaktoolik...
Conventional Iditarod Trail Sled Dog races see a finish in Nome by Tuesday, but not so this year.
A 130-mile longer trail, rerouted from the Iditarod trail to Fairbanks and thus mostly run on the...
Cody Sherman won the Open-C Class competition and the overall race, in last Saturday’s Nome-Golovin 200 snowmachine race, in a time of 2 hours and 14 minutes.
The race started on the beach by...
Thirty-three Iditarod sled dog teams made their way down 4th Avenue in Anchorage last Saturday, running a shortened three miles through the city for the ceremonial start of the 53rd Iditarod.
With...
Even though the Iditarod race start was moved from Anchorage to Fairbanks this year, because of the lack of snow and warm temperatures in Southcentral all winter and bare dirt north of the Alaska...
Cars lined up near the Swanberg Dredge around 2 p.m. on Tuesday, as people braved the blustery weather to see the first of the Iron Dog racers come into Nome.
Team 20 Bradley George and Robby...
Mike Morgan has competed in every Iron Dog since 2009 except for one. He has finished twelve times, ended in the top three eight times, and won the race twice. Now, he’s going for his sixteenth Iron...