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22C BOUNDARIES — There will now be a hunting quota of 15 musk oxen in 22C’s outer Nome area, labeled as TX096 and outlined in red here. Another 15 musk oxen are available for harvest in the Inner Nome Area, which is known as TX095 and shaded in pink.
    State game managers have been under pressure to address the musk ox population around Nome following the deadly goring of Curtis Worland by a musk ox in December. In a bid to reduce the animals’...
The port of Nome on March 17, 2023
By Diana Haecker   Senator Donny Olson (D-Golovin) and Rep. Neal Foster (D-Nome) told the Nome Common Council on Monday of efforts in the state legislature to claw back some of the $175 million...
By Megan Gannon   The Alaska Department of Natural Resources issued a permit, allowing Graphite One to move heavy equipment from the Kougarok Road through Mosquito Pass on a temporary winter trail....
By Megan Gannon Through archaeological and archival research, the locations of nearly 100 individual burials have been identified at Pilgrim Hot Springs. The unmarked graves are thought to contain...
Jason Mackey extinguishes the widow's lantern as the last musher off the trail on the 2023 Iditarod.
By Megan Gannon Just after 5 p.m. on Friday, March 17, with the still bright spring sun shining down on Nome, Jason Mackey ran toward the burled arch in Nome with ice frozen to his chin, five dogs in...
Ryan Redington arrives in Nome
By Diana Haecker Ryan Redington, 40, fulfilled a dream —not only for him but his entire Redington family clan —by winning the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race on Tuesday, shortly after noon, when he...
INTO KOYUK— Musher Wade Marrs and his dog team arrived in Koyuk on Monday, March 13.
By Megan Gannon and Diana Haecker The small field of Iditarod mushers starting from Willow last Sunday shrunk more when Iditarod rookie Jennifer LaBar scratched in Rainy Pass due to a badly broken...
Winner Ryan Redington, his lead dogs Ghost and Sven and his parents Barb and Raymie Redington.
Ryan Redington, 40, of Knik, AK won the 2023 Iditarod in a time of 8 days, 21 hours and 13 minutes.
By Megan Gannon After four days without flights, Nomeites stranded at the Anchorage airport are starting to wonder if the Iditarod mushers will beat them back home. The delays have been a good...
By Diana Haecker Puddles on ice, slippery sidewalks and heavy wet snow berms are remnants of a three-day weather event that pummeled Nome and the region. Over the weekend and for the most part on...

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