Sports
Last weekend, 41 teams started the Iron Dog snowmachine race in the pro class section. The Iron Dog, known as the world’s longest and toughest snowmobile race, runs 2,031 miles from Big Lake to Nome...
Eight teams from the Bering Strait School District joined Nome’s two junior varsity squads last weekend for the Norton Sound Shootout — the largest high school basketball tournament of the year in...
A whole new world was opened to several young Gambell students this weekend as they attended their first biathlon race in Anchorage. The event, titled the Sweetheart Relays, was hosted by the Nordic...
Girls varsity teams from Nome, Point Hope, Kotzebue and Houston met in Kotzebue last weekend for a four-way tournament. While all the northwestern teams came away with victories over Houston, none...
On Saturday at noon, the Nome Kennel Club kicked off the 2016 sled dog racing season with its first race starting at the Greg Kruschek Avenue snow dump facility.
Seven local mushers guided their...
Lady Nanooks Double OT
Teams from Nome-Beltz got a heavy dose of the Bethel Warriors last weekend as both varsity squads traveled south for three-team tournaments, while junior high squads from...