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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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
The Nome-Beltz Nanooks took two hard fought basketball games from the Bethel Warriors Friday and Saturday in the Nanook gym.
Friday’s contest ended 67-46 on a night where it would have been closer...
On their home turf, the Nome-Beltz Lady Nanooks twice beat the Eielson Ravens last weekend in lopsided games in which the score didn’t give a true picture of the intensity of play.
The Ravens have...
The Nome Kennel Club, America’s oldest, hosted two mushing races last Sunday. Four ten-dog teams competed over a 15-mile course and two eight-dog teams ran the shorter 8-mile race. Temperatures ran...
Matt Failor set a new all time record in winning the 40th annual Kuskokwim 300 sled dog race in Bethel last Sunday.
Failor’s time of 36 hours and 32 minutes broke Martin Buser’s old record 37 hours...
The world’s oldest kennel club for sled dogs and working dogs, the Nome Kennel Club, is poised for action on the snow. Events planned for the spring 2019 season include four races and the Nome-...