Sports
March Madness got off to a strong start in Unalakleet last weekend as a unique combination of two classifications joined in four days of outstanding basketball competition and celebration. For the...
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race got underway Sunday with 85 teams leaving from a frozen lake north of Anchorage and heading to Nome in what officials say promises to be one of the most competitive...
While the Lady Nanooks varsity girls cagers traveled south last weekend to end their regular season with a pair of wins against the Lady Wolfpack of Unalakleet, the Nanook boys basketball team...
The world is about to become a lot smaller for eight young Nome athletes who have earned spots on Team Alaska, the organizational body in charge of assembling sporting teams for the 2016 Arctic...
Shortly after each pair of racers crossed the Iron Dog Snowmachine Race’s half-way mark near Nome’s East End Park on Tuesday, Feb 23, they were quickly escorted to the Nome Public Works Building....
Many spectators in the crowded Nome-Beltz gym last week watched forward Kamaka Hepa of the visiting Barrow Whalers with the a feeling they might be witnessing some special history unfolding before...
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...
