What’s the hurry? It is freezing with temperatures near zero Fahrenheit and a biting wind. But that’s not what’s causing the ...

Bering Air Flight 445, a Cessna 208B, crashed into sea ice about 34 miles southeast of Nome, Alaska, after going missing during a flight Thursday afternoon, authorities said. There were nine ...

It's likely the toll was greater, because Alaska Natives were not accurately tracked. Balto gains fame as unlikely dog to bring serum to Nome Seppala and Togo missed the limelight that went to his ...

2, 1925. A banner front-page headline in the San Francisco Chronicle proclaimed: "Dogs victors over blizzard in battle to succor stricken Nome." The official record listed five deaths and 29 illnesses ...