Sports

Mike Morgan won the 2025 Cannonball race, held on Saturday, April 19, 2025
The roar of snowmachines filled the Nome outer harbor on Saturday, as 20 Nome Cannonball snowmachine racers took off to run laps around Nome, with the harbor being the start and finish point. The...
Nanooks celebrate their state championship victory.
Sirens blared and Nanook flags flew high as Nome welcomed the Nanooks home from the state basketball tournament on Sunday evening. On Saturday, the Nanooks beat Sitka’s Wolves 62-43, bringing home...
The Wolfpack’s Isaac Smith threads heavy defense as he makes his way to the hoop in the 2A State Championship Game.
Last weekend, Shaktoolik and Unalakleet made the region proud, bringing home two State Championship trophies from a successful weekend at the 1A and 2A Basketball States in Anchorage. The Shaktoolik...
Matt Hall is arriving in Unaklakleet in second place, on Tuesday, March 11.
Conventional Iditarod Trail Sled Dog races see a finish in Nome by Tuesday, but not so this year. A 130-mile longer trail, rerouted from the Iditarod trail to Fairbanks and thus mostly run on the...
START YOUR ENGINES—Cody Sherman, winner of the Nome-Golovin race, starts his engine in front of a crowd of people waiting.
Cody Sherman won the Open-C Class competition and the overall race, in last Saturday’s Nome-Golovin 200 snowmachine race, in a time of 2 hours and 14 minutes. The race started on the beach by...
OFF THEY GO— Jason Mackey was the first of a field of 33 mushers in the 2025 Iditarod to dash off the ceremonial start line on 4th Avenue in Anchorage, on Saturday, March 1.
Thirty-three Iditarod sled dog teams made their way down 4th Avenue in Anchorage last Saturday, running a shortened three miles through the city for the ceremonial start of the 53rd Iditarod. With...
Photo by Anna Lionas LOVE ALASKA– A dog team mushes on the river, heading out of Fairbanks and to Nome, while a crowd of Fairbanksians move around on the frozen Chena River.
Even though the Iditarod race start was moved from Anchorage to Fairbanks this year, because of the lack of snow and warm temperatures in Southcentral all winter and bare dirt north of the Alaska...
Bradley George and Robby Schachle fistbump under the Iron Dog arch in Nome, as they were the first team to reach the halfway point.
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 on a recent training run on the Yentna River en route to Skwentna.
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...
HAVING FUN—Mushers pose before the start of the kick sledding fun run. From left, they are: Danielle Sem, Emilie Loran, Sam Pollee, Alicia Reitz, Garrick Fuller, Cassie Fuller, Valerie Fuller, Max Fuller and Tami Seward Thompson.
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...

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