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The beloved star of Discovery Channel's Flying Wild Alaska Jim Tweto, 68, has been killed along with a hunting and fishing guide from Idaho when their small plane crashed shortly after takeoff. Tweto's family-run rural aviation business in Unalakleet was featured in three seasons of the television series a decade ago. He and passenger Shane Reynolds of Orofino, Idaho, died Friday near the coastal village of Shaktoolik, roughly 125 miles east of Nome, Alaska State Troopers said. The plane 'was witnessed taking off but not climbing and then crashing,' their report said. Troopers were notified of an SOS activation around...

A powerful, historic storm continued battering a huge swath of the Western Alaska coastline on Saturday, with reports of flooding, wind damage and power outages. The extent of flooding and damage wasn’t immediately clear but social media posts reported flooding in multiple communities. As the system approached Alaska late Friday and into early Saturday, roaring south-to-southwesterly winds battered the state’s western coast. Through Saturday morning, widespread gusts had reached 45 to 77 mph, according to the National Weather Service. In Hooper Bay, with a population of over 1,000 people, some families were reportedly evacuating and social media posts showed water...

Here are the rankings: 1 Thomas Waerner - Total race time: 9d 10h 37m 47s 2 Mitch Seavey - Total race time: 9d 16h 15m 38s 3 Jessie Royer - Total race time: 9d 17h 47m 16s 4 Brent Sass - Total race time: 9d 18h 57m 47s 5 Aaron Burmeister- Total race time: 9d 19h 18m 53s 6 Joar Leifseth Ulsom - Total race time: 9d 19h 48m 41s 7 Paige Drobny- Total race time: 9d 19h 54m 35s 8 Ryan Redington - Total race time: 9d 20h 40m 58s 9 Jessie Holmes - Total race time: 9d 21h...

Nome is used to rowdy residents, but some relatively new transplants are making a real nuisance of themselves -- although unlike the colorful characters of the early 20th century gold rush days, these visitors have four legs, not two. Musk oxen are wandering into the city on the Seward Peninsula, and despite loud noises, water hoses and even a blow-up bear coated in ursine urine, they don't want to leave.

Musk oxen have proven themselves harmful to dogs. Musk oxen continue to add numbers to violent deaths and injuries to dogs in the Nome area.

The ice-bound town of Nome will likely get its emergency fuel supply this weekend from a Russian tanker that has taken three weeks to get there, as Alaska continues to be battered by one of the state's harshest winters in decades. The tanker Renda arrived just offshore from Nome on Friday with its cargo of fuel for the town, which was cut off from oceangoing supplies by waters that froze earlier than expected. The Russian-flagged tanker vessel Renda followed a trail cut through the ice by the Coast Guard Cutter Healy in the Bering Sea Thursday as it headed to...

* Vessel brings emergency fuel supplies to U.S. town * Tanker ploughs through two-feet-thick ice on 10-day voyage By Alissa de Carbonnel MOSCOW, Jan 13 (Reuters) - A Russian tanker escorted by the U.S. Coast Guard reached the frozen Alaskan port of Nome with emergency fuel supplies on Friday after a 10-day voyage through ice-choked seas, the Russian company that owns the vessel said. The mission to Nome is the first mid-winter marine delivery to western Alaska and comes as oil and gas development and climate change increase commercial traffic along trade routes in the Arctic. ... The Renda herself...

The iced-in city of Nome on Alaska's western coast may be in luck: A Russian tanker that can plow through thick ice will try to deliver 1.5 million gallons of home heating fuel, gasoline and diesel fuel after a massive storm kept a barge from getting in before winter.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The residents of Nome, Alaska, could be looking at a very costly winter: $9-a-gallon gasoline. The coastal city of more than 3,500 residents that is known for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is iced-in, and a massive winter storm this month prevented a barge that usually carries fuel from getting to shore...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The streets of downtown Anchorage were filled with barking dogs and screaming fans Saturday as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race got under way with a rollicking sprint through Alaska's biggest city. The ceremonial start of the world's longest sled dog race is always a festive affair in which one of the city's main streets becomes crowded with dog teams and people seeking to greet their favorite mushers and bid them good luck in the 1,150-mile race to Nome.

IDITAROD XXXVIII Musher Lance Mackey (Bib # 49) arrived in Nome Alaska at 2:59 pm Alaska Time with 11 dogs, and is the first musher in Iditarod Race history to win four back to back Iditarod Championships. Mackey gave all the credit to his team and his leaders… especially his three year old female Maple (last year’s Golden Harness winner).Mackey also recognized the fact that there were no less than four other mushers that battled him all the way to White Mountain. Even then, Mackey’s battle wasn’t over as the 2010 Yukon Quest Champion, Hans Gatt, continued to gain on...

JUNEAU -- Boomers talked for decades about building a road to Nome, an epic 500-mile plus project that would run through some of the most remote wilderness of forest, tundra, rivers and valleys in the world. Now Gov. Sarah Palin, to the dismay of some state legislators, is making a push for what could be a $2 billion project. Palin highlighted the project in her State of the State speech 10 days ago, declaring that she's pursuing a road to Nome, while in the same speech acknowledging a potential budget shortfall of more than a billion dollars. Some lawmakers are...

With another hurricane bearing down on the Gulf Coast, the so-called “bridge to nowhere,” championed by Alaska’s Congressional delegation on behalf of the people of Ketchikan, just won’t go away. Three years ago, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the plan to spend hundreds of millions to connect Ketchikan with its airport on Gravina Island became a national symbol of Congressional excess, much to the dismay of Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don Young. Sen. John McCain has made it a habit to ridicule the bridge project during his presidential campaign. McCain has promised to veto any bill sent to...

Sled-dog racing pundits said it couldn't be done. Win the brutal 1,000-mile Yukon Quest Sled Dog Race and the punishing 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race both in one year, both -- in fact -- in the space of little more than a month? Impossible. And then a hardscrabble, cancer-beating musher from Fairbanks by the name of Lance Mackey did it. But that was last year. What could Mackey possibly do to top it this year? How about an instant replay? First the Quest in bone-numbing, flesh-freezing, 40-degree below zero temperatures that left Mackey with frostbitten feet. Then the Iditarod,...

Hard to believe, but Nome has just gotten its first pizza delivery business, a joint that brings gourmet pies to people's doors and even flies special orders to Bush villages hundreds of miles away. For free. It may not arrive hot, but it's all the rage in this Northwest Alaska region where Nome, with its 3,500 residents, had no food delivery options until Airport Pizza launched.

<p>LAWSUIT: "Jane Doe 2" says the Rev. James Poole impregnated her as a teen.</p> <p>A Jesuit priest already facing accusations of sexual abuse now faces another lawsuit by a woman who says he molested her as a child, got her pregnant at 14 and told her to "get rid of the baby," according to the new suit filed in Nome Wednesday.</p>