Anchorage, Alaska – Veteran Iditarod musher Brent Sass (bib #27) of Eureka, Alaska, was the first musher to reach the White Mountain checkpoint today at 11:05 a.m. with 12 dogs. Northrim Bank’s award was first given out in 2018. Sass receives a $2,500 check and a special trophy that resides at Iditarod headquarters year-round. New […]
At 2:55 am on Monday morning, the VPSO of White Mountain, Dan Harrelson, called in to AST and advised that search and rescue crews were on the scene and working to rescue three individuals on two ATVs trapped in a Golovin Bay overflow. All three riders, 29-year-old Joseph Fagundes, 27-year-old Stephanie Fahey and 23-year-old […]
Nome-based Alaska State Troopers report that there is still no resolution to a six-day search for a 63-year-old White Mountain man that broke through the ice at the mouth of the Fish River and Golovin Bay on Sunday. According to the trooper report, Lincoln Simon went through the ice on Sunday and managed to call […]
ANCHORAGE – May 31, 2017 – Alaskans living in Norton Sound villages now have better access to health care as part of an innovative GCI project that brings high-speed internet to thousands in rural Alaska. This month, GCI connected health care clinics in Elim, Golovin and White Mountain to its Terrestrial for Every Rural Region in Alaska […]