The Nome Nugget

SKIMEISTER — Ella Hubert of Nome, right, was crowned the Middle School Girls Skimeister at the recent WISA Ski/Biathlon Championships held in Galena, on March 26-28, 2026.

Ella Hubert crowned middle school girls’ Skimeister at WISA

The Nanooks finished their ski and biathlon season last weekend with the 2026 First Tracks Ski Race & Invitational in White Mountain.

Jessie Holmes wins 2026 Iditarod!

Jessie Holmes of Brushkana, Alaska, notched his second consecutive Iditarod win on Tuesday, March 17 when he reached the burled arch at 9:32 p.m. with 12 dogs in harness, after nine days, seven hours and 32 minutes on the trail.

PROPOSED CREW CAMP SITE— The BSNC property south of the Richard Foster Building is the proposed site for a crew camp to house Kiewit employees building the first phase of the Port of Nome expansion.

Planning Commission ok’s variance permit for proposed crew camp

At a public hearing during their Tuesday, March 3 meeting the Nome Planning Commission voted in favor of a variance application to relax setbacks requirements on the internal property lines at the site of a proposed Kiewit 186-person man camp.

DEFENDING CHAMP— Jessie Holmes heads down 4th Avenue during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Ceremonial Start on Saturday, March 7.

Iditarod 54: Thirty-four mushers are on the way to Nome

The 54th running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race kicked off with a snowy ceremonial start in Anchorage the morning of Saturday, March 7.

Dogs need to be raised and carefully brought up in a way to where they trust the musher 100 percent while at the same time the musher can fully trust his or her team.

Iditarod Insights: The Husky

The Iditarod is the culmination of years of dreams and planning for a dog musher.

Winds pick up loose snow and depending on the velocity of the wind, it feels like one is running on moving clouds or is stuck right in the middle of said clouds, while the wind is screaming and snow pelts one's face.

Iditarod Insights: Windy

It’s howling windy in the Alaska Range tonight. The forecast calls for a low of -20°F and colder in Rainy Pass for the next few days with 20 to 30 mph winds and windchills down to -50°F.

Mine plan as detailed in the Environmental Evaluation Document produced by Graphite One.

Graphite One: US Army Corps to hold public meetings next week

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is holding public meetings in Nome, Teller and Brevig Mission next week to give an overview of the proposed Graphite One graphite mine on the northern slopes of the Kigluaik Mountains and to present information on...

Nome red fox tests positive for avian flu

A red fox hit by a car in Nome last month tested positive for a variant of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, or HPAI. Sara Henslee, Area Biologist at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, said that the fox was brought in after someone hit it...

Ella Hubert crowned middle school girls’ Skimeister at WISA

The Nanooks finished their ski and biathlon season last weekend with the 2026 First Tracks Ski Race & Invitational in White Mountain. The previous weekend, Nanooks competed at the Western Interior Ski Association Championships, or WISA, in...

Seven compete in NKC’s Nome-Golovin 200 sled dog race

The Nome Kennel Club last week hosted the inaugural Nome-Golovin 200 sled dog race, with four local teams and three teams from Two Rivers and Nenana competing. Historically, the Nome Kennel Club has organized the Nome-Council 200 but this year,...

CONDITIONAL USE— Kiewit representatives Dan Peterson and Scott Fowlds, and Ron Thompson of Scope Permitting & Engineering answerquestions from the Planning Commission during a special meeting on Tuesday, March 31.

Planning Commission ok’s conditional use permit for Kiewit crew camp

The Nome Planning Commission approved a conditional use permit for a proposed 186-person crew camp in town to house construction crews working on the Port of Nome expansion project, slated to begin this summer. The special meeting included a...

Assistant Secretary of the Army visits Nome

Members of the Nome City Council, Port Commission and city administration met with Adam Telle, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works last Wednesday in a closed-door meeting at Old St. Joe’s. In a press briefing following the meeting,...

RALLY – Nomeites gather Saturday, March 28 for a “No Kings” rally at Anvil City Square.

Nome joins nationwide “No Kings” protest

On Saturday, March 28, just over a dozen Nomeites gathered at Anvil City Square to take part in a “No Kings” protest. Nationwide, thousands of planned protests garnered millions of attendees. Conner Thomas, holding a sign that proclaimed, ‘...

IPOP LLC's plans to mine for gold in the Bonanza Channel meet resistance from state regulators.

State rejects IPOP’s appeal of permit denial to mine at Bonanza Channel

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources denied an appeal by IPOP LLC, as the Nevada outfit tried to overturn a decision by the DNR Division of Mining, Land and Water that had denied IPOP’s permit application to start up a controversial gold...

Without legal cab services, Nomeites without transportation have to brave the elements to get to places.

Nome is without legal taxi services

The city’s deadline to apply for taxi cab licenses by March 2 came and went, with the result that currently no legal taxi cabs are roaming Nome’s roads for the lack of any entity or person to submit an application to run a legal taxi cab. During...

RED LANTERN – Final musher into Nome Richie Beattie extinguishes the Red Lantern after arriving in Nome on Friday, March 20. Beattie finished with a total time of 12 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes and 46 seconds with eight dogs in harness.

Iditarod 54 comes to a close with 29 finishers reaching Nome

The 54th running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race came to a conclusion on Friday evening, when Richie Beattie arrived in Nome at 7:49 p.m. Beattie, of Fairbanks, extinguished the Widow’s Lantern, officially signaling that all mushers are off the...

NANOOK OFFENSE - Nanook Stanley Booth maneuvers with a Barrow defender behind him during the semi-final of the State 3A Championships Thursday at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage. Barrow won 63-50 to advance to the final championship game against Mt. Edgecumbe.

Nome Nanooks place third at 3A Basketball State Championships

*/ The Nome Nanooks, winners of the last two 3A state basketball titles, began the season with hopes of making it three in a row. But the three-peat was stopped by the Barrow Whalers in the semi-final of the state tournament. A strong Barrow...

Jessie Holmes tends to his dogs in Unalakleet.

Jessie Holmes leads Iditarod mushers up the coast

As the frontrunners of Iditarod 54 approached the coast and the first coast checkpoint of Unalakleet, it was cold, calm, and clear. Inside the checkpoint building, on a bluff above the river, it was busy, with checkpoint volunteers whipping up eggs...