Sports
Bryant Hammond relied on his strong swimming and running backgrounds to establish a lead that no individual racer could overcome in Sunday’s annual Stroke-n-Croak Triathlon. He completed the 1-mile...
The Nome Nanook NYO team brought nine athletes to the annual Native Youth Olympics competition in Anchorage, held Thursday April 21-23. Every year NYO attracts hundreds of high school athletes from...
The Bering Strait School District 31st Native Youth Olympics was held last weekend from April 14 to 16 in Savoonga, on St. Lawrence Island. The annual meet is a coming-together of all villages in the...
Nome’s Mike Morgan overall and in the open class won the 2016 Archie Ferguson Willie Goodwin Memorial snow machine race put on by the Kotzebue Lions Club.
Due to blizzard conditions, the 220-mile...
On Saturday, the third and final day of competition at the 30th Annual Western Interior Ski and Biathlon Championships, first year Nome skiers Ben Cross and Mary Fiskeaux had the tough tasks of...
If the jargon “shooting clean” in biathlon is used when a participant has connected on all shots in a race, then eighth grader Ben Homekingkeo of Koyuk should now be called Mr. Clean. On Friday...
At 10 a.m. sharp, the calm of Saturday’s blue skies were shattered by the barking of dogs and the pandemonium that ensued as four dog teams leaped, en masse, off the starting line of the Nome Kennel...
The Lonnie O’Connor Iditarod Basketball Championships were contested last week in five divisions at the Nome Recreation Center.
In the Men’s over 35 division Elim took first place. They were followed...
The culmination of the high school basketball year and the end of many hoop dreams comes in spring season known as “March Madness”. The ebb and flow of the almost four month season is replaced with...
Mary Helwig was the last musher to arrive under the burled arch on Saturday March 19. Helwig extinguished the widow’s lantern well before Sunday finisher’s banquet and with her arrival in Nome,...