Nome

The wind was howling in off the Bering Sea as the first Iron Dog racers pulled in off the ice an into Nome on Tuesday evening. That didn't stop a crowd from gathering to welcome the first racers in. In a fairly tight finish, Dusty Van Meter and Marc McKenna outraced two other teams to claim the $10,000 in gold coins. Nome buzzed with activity Tuesday evening and into Wednesday as racers continued to arrive. Locals scrambled to provide services to Iron Dog racers, family members and support staff, while the city shops became race central.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The community of Nome celebrated the official completion of its wind farm Thursday. It's the largest collection of wind turbines in the state and taps into an energy resource that never goes up or down in price. And there's plenty of wind out on the tundra of northwest Alaska. In the past few weeks, the wind farm has been up to full power at times. "A tremendous amount of wind, and the majority of the wind comes from just east of north," said Brian Jackson, one of the founders of Western Community Energy.

by The Associated Press Tuesday, March 24, 2009 NOME, Alaska -- The last musher has reached the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race finish line. Rookie Timothy Hunt of Marquette, Mich., finished early Tuesday morning, the 52nd musher to arrive in Nome. Sixty-seven mushers started the race March 8 near Anchorage. Lance Mackey won the race last Wednesday, and 15 either scratched or were withdrawn. The 43-year-old Hunt completed the 1,100-mile race in 15 days, 14 hours and 6 minutes.

by The Associated Press Friday, March 20, 2009 NOME, Alaska -- Mushers are straggling into Nome in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race . As of Friday, 25 mushers had crossed the finish line, two days after Lance Mackey won this third consecutive title. There are still 30 mushers on the trail. Twelve others have either scratched or been withdrawn from the 1,100-mile race , which started March 8 in Willow. Four dogs died in this year's race, the latest on Thursday when a 5-year-old male named Maynard in the team of Canadian musher Warren Palfrey died about an hour outside of Nome.

The top five mushers in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race have finished in Nome, with two of them beating the race’s previous record, set in 2002. Kotzebue musher John Baker, the first Alaska Native Iditarod champion since 1976, holds the new record at 8 days, 18 hours, 46 minutes and 39 seconds. Baker, who is also the first-ever Inupiaq Iditarod champion, came into Nome at 9:46 a.m. He had to walk his dogs across the line after their zig-zagging path led to a tangle just feet from the famed burled arch.

Editor's note : A link to the live stream will appear on the KTUU.com homepage when the live broadcast is about to begin. Early estimates put Mackey's arrival in Nome at between 11:30 a.m. and noon. by Channel 2 News staff Wednesday, March 18, 2009 NOME, Alaska -- Lance Mackey has cleared the last checkpoint in The Last Great Race and is on his way to Nome's burled arch to claim his third straight victory. Channel 2 and KTUU.com will air the finish live in approximately two and a half to three hours.

by Channel 2 News staff Tuesday, February 23, 2010 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Imagine getting to Nome in a little more than two days: On an Iron Dog, it's possible. Front runners in the world's longest snowmachine race reached the halfway point Tuesday evening. Chris Olds and Tyler Huntington set the pace as first-time partners. The duo arrived in Nome at 7:28 Tuesday evening, an hour and 41 minutes ahead of defending champs Todd Minnick and Nick Olstad. Teams have a mandatory layover in Nome.

The Russian tanker Renda, which is making a winter fuel delivery to Nome, is less than 200 nautical miles from its destination Saturday. The ship made good progress toward the iced-in port Friday night, according to the company that contracted it. Vitus Marine LLC spokesperson Stacey Smith says the Renda and the Coast Guard icebreaker Healy were stopped against an ice ridge just before dawn Saturday and waited until daylight to proceed. As of 8 a.m. Saturday, the Renda was passing Hooper Bay headed north.

Fuel is flowing to the city of Nome, as a Russian tanker began offloading more than 1.3 million gallons of petroleum products Monday evening in a breakthrough winter fuel delivery to the iced-in port. Earlier Monday, crews worked on laying out two hoses from the tanker. One of those hoses was hooked up shortly before sunset at about 5 p.m., and the Renda began pumping gasoline into Nome's storage tanks. Those tanks were supposed to be filled last year, but winter storms kept barges from making their final deliveries.

Nome- Beltz High School seniors of 2013 wanted a graduation speaker who resonated with all students. At a Wednesday night ceremony, the seniors got their wish when a longtime friend appeared before them in the form of a pre -recorded message. She spoke to students intimately, as if she was having a one-on-one conversation, and read a book to them. She was their librarian. Graduate Dylan Johnson said a lot of different ideas for speakers came up at a senior meeting early in the school year.

2013 Native Youth Olympics, Anchorage Results From Friday, April 26th ESKIMO STICK PULL Girls 1st  Mariam Wamsley , Valdez 2nd  Sarah Schroeder , Dillingham 3rd  Kelsea Wassilie , LPSD 4th  Alyssa Bushey , Nome 5th  Kaitlyn Wassilie , Bristol Bay Boys 1st  Randy Standifer , Tebughna 2nd  Dalton Beatie , Mat-Su A 3rd  Nelson Fiso , ANC A 4th  Connor McConnel,...

Billy Koitzsch of Anchorage completed a 2,000 mile journey from Knik to Nome to Fairbanks this past Friday, covering the Iron Dog trail on a fat tire bike.  Koitzsch, 40, took about 40 days to finish his trip across some of Alaska's most demanding and varied terrain.  Koitzsch is believed to be the first cyclist to traverse the Iron Dog trail solo.  He began his trip February 21st, traveled the southern route of the Iditarod to Nome,...

ASAA 3A & 4A Basketball Tournament, Sullivan Arena Quarterfinal Scores--4A Boys Colony def. Thunder Mountain, 60-56 West def. Lathrop, 57-55 East def. Palmer, 68-61 Service def. Dimond, 65-48   Quarterfinal Scores--4A Girls Lathrop def. Kodiak, 56-42 Colony def. West, 44-35 Dimond def. West Valley, 42-41 Wasilla def. Juneau, 56-23   Quarterfinal Scores--3A Boys Bethel def. Seward, 42-32 Monroe def. Grace Christian, 50-29 Mt. Edgecumbe def. Valdez, 68-46  ACS def. Nome, 67-48   Quarterfinal Scores--3A Girls Barrow def. Seward, 50-30 Hutchison def. Houston, 44-34 ACS def. Nome, 63-21 Sitka def.

The Iditarod XLI Trail Sled Dog Race finished on Sunday, March 17 with the last remaining teams checking into Nome with rookie Christine Roalofs capturing the Red Lantern award. Mitch Seavey, this year's winner, pulled into the burled arch on Tuesday night, winning his second championship, in 9 days, 7 hours, 39 minutes, and 56 seconds. Roalofs, of Anchorage, checked into Safety Sunday morning. She made it to Nome in 13 days, 22 hours, 36 minutes, and 8 seconds, crossing the finish line at 1:36 p.m. Roalofs marks the 54th team to complete the nearly 1,000 mile journey from Willow to Nome.

More than two-thirds of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race's field has reached Nome as of Thursday night -- but one sled dog's 300-mile journey to safety is also drawing a healthy amount of attention. Race standings list Aaron Peck as the latest musher to arrive at the Burled Arch, claiming 41st place with a 5:09 p.m. arrival Thursday. An additional 13 mushers remain on the trail, with Bob Chlupach bringing up the rear after checking in to Shaktoolik at 5:25 p.m. Iditarod spokesperson Erin McLarnon says the race's happiest ending could be that of May, a sled dog with Jamaican musher Newton Marshall's team that got separated from his sled en route to Nikolai.

Less than a day after Mitch Seavey won the 2013 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, nearly two dozen mushers have made it to Nome -- but there are still a few slots left to end the race in the money. Seavey's Tuesday night repeat of his 2004 victory won him a new pickup truck and $50,400 from the Iditarod's $600,000 prize pool, with the remainder being divided among runner-up Aliy Zirkle and the rest of the race's top 30 mushers. As of about 3:20 p.m. Wednesday, race standings show 22 mushers across the finish line, with four-time champions Jeff King, Martin Buser and Lance Mackey taking third, 17th and 19th place respectively.

Snowmachiners in the 2013 Iron Dog began roaring out of Nome Thursday in five-team groups arranged by current standings, headed for the Fairbanks finish line after taking a day of rest at the race's midpoint. According to an Iron Dog list of restart times, Team 17's Marc McKenna and Dusty VanMeter -- 2012's champions and the 2013 race's leaders by three minutes of trail time -- were first out of the gate from Nome at 8 a.m., followed two minutes and 39 seconds later by their closest competitors for the lead, Brian Dick and Eric Quam in Team 23. Third-place holders Aaron Bartel and Brad George in Team 25 left Nome at 8:14:50 a.m., with Team 11's Scott Davis and Todd Palin departing at 8:28:49 a.m. and Team 8's Tyler Aklestad and Tyson Johnson rounding out the top five.

A Sincere Thank You to Our Volunteers. Before I dive into any other topic, it needs to be said immediately that Iron Dog is largely dependent on the kindness, efforts and work of our volunteers. As a two person staff, putting on an event of this magnitude is an incredible endeavor. I am sincerely grateful for the support we receive year round and especially aware of the stresses placed on our volunteer Marshals and other Officials. Every volunteer deserves to be thanked personally and I hope if you see them working you'll help me make that happen.

Most teams in the Iron Dog snowmachine race are in Nome Wednesday, pausing at the race's midway point for a mandatory rest-and-repair period before continuing to its Fairbanks finish line Thursday. Team 23's Brian Dick and Eric Quam led the way into Nome, arriving at 4:22 p.m. Tuesday afternoon -- and closely followed by the race's 2012 champions, Marc McKenna and Dusty VanMeter in Team 17, who arrived only 23 seconds later. While McKenna and VanMeter were second into Nome, they are first in total trail time, leading the race over Dick and Quam by a razor-thin 37 seconds.