Former reality TV star Jessie Holmes wins longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska
NOME, Alaska – Jessie Holmes, a former reality television star, won the longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Friday. Holmes was first to the finish line in the Gold Rush town of Nome, on the ...
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In Nome, Alaska, a cadre of tinkerers and partisans keeps aiding Ukraine
NOME, Alaska — Along the remote western edge of ... which overlooks the frozen Bering Sea. These days he is coordinating several military and civilian aid projects, often by enlisting fellow ...
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Chilling history of the Alaska Triangle where more than 20,000 people have vanished following discovery of Bering flight wreckage
At the time, the Nome Fire Department shared SAR imagery revealing substantial ice near the shoreline, where rescue teams worked to find the missing Bering plane off the coast of Alaska.
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Federal fisheries council inches closer to Bering Sea salmon bycatch rule
In 2021, Bering Sea pollock trawlers caught 546,043 chum salmon as bycatch, about 10% of which was headed to western Alaska, where subsistence communities depend on them for survival. It was the ...
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Federal investigators to look at the role weather data played in Bering Air crash that killed 10
Federal investigators will scrutinize the weather forecast the pilot received before a Bering ... Nome last week, killing all 10 people aboard. The crash of the 9-passenger Cessna Caravan on the ...
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Early landings of Alaska crabs show signs of recovery
Bering Sea fishermen have harvested roughly 60 percent of this year’s total allowable harvest of snow crabs. But there’s limited processing capacity for the catch. Fishermen have unloaded ...
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After fatal plane crash, Northwest Alaska communities embrace victims' families and Bering Air
A Bering Air plane descended into Golovin on Feb. 8, two days after the fatal crash near Nome. Ten hearts were ... people in Northwest Alaska were standing by each other. Golovin was one of ...
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Bering Land Bridge wasn’t such a dry place
Poking holes in the sea floor that used to be part of the Bering Land Bridge ... bridge between the grasslands of Siberia and ice age Alaska. Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska ...
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Packed with ponds and bogs, the Bering Land Bridge wasn’t such a dry place
These revelations about the Bering Land Bridge originated during a monthlong August-September 2023 cruise of the Sikuliaq. During that journey off Alaska ... Nome as ice sheets melted and sea ...
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Mushers begin rugged Iditarod race after lack of snow forces major changes to iconic Alaska event
The new course reroutes mushers and their dog teams around a difficult stretch of trail north of the Alaska Range ... the old Gold Rush town of Nome on the Bering Sea coast in about 10 days.
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'Severe Icing' Could Be to Blame for Alaska Plane Crash That Killed 10, Expert Says (Exclusive)
Officials are continuing to investigate what went wrong with the Bering Air flight last week ... health and breaking news stories. Alaska U.S. Coast Guard/X Officials are still investigating ...