Sports
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...
On a cold but sunny Saturday afternoon, the Nome Kennel Club and friends gathered at the snow dump to run dogs and commemorate 100 years since the Serum Run to Nome.
The 1925 Serum Run made national...
Bleachers were packed at the Subway Showdown in the den of the Nome Nanooks last weekend. The walls were covered in homemade posters welcoming the other teams, and one which recreated the Subway logo...
When Wyatt Ahmasuk was in elementary school, he watched his brother Oliver Hoogendorn wrestle for a championship win at states. His brother came second that year, but Ahmasuk was enthralled. He...
Last week, 18 wrestling teams descended on Nome for the Dudley Homelvig Scramble wrestling tournament. The teams mostly came from the Nome Census Region and the Northwest Arctic Borough, but there...
By Anna Lionas
A counting error during last week’s Bering Strait School District Wrestling and Cheerleading Competition left Gambell Cheerleaders in tears when their first-place trophy was rescinded...
This past weekend cross country state championships were held in Anchorage at Bartlett High School and Western Alaska showed up and showed out, with four students placing in the top ten for their...
Going into the Nome-Golovin snowmachine race on Sunday, Wilson Hoogendorn said he was just hoping to finish because he hadn’t practiced the trail in a while. He not only completed the race for the...
Snowmachine racer Mike Morgan was in a garage in Nome last Thursday afternoon prepping for a training run up to Kotzebue and down to Unalakleet.
“We got stiffer springs up front, we redesigned the...