For years Alaskans have been lining the sides of Twentymile river just past Girdwood to fill their buckets with Hooligan, and this year that is where our weekly Fishing Report segment starts.
Both Mille Porsild and Michelle Phillips sought refuge inside a shelter cabin along the race route due to the extreme weather on the night of March 14, causing them to lose places in the event.
South Anchorage baseball stars Curtis Herbert and Oliver Brown are heading off to separate Division I colleges next year, but still have a few more weeks together to continue making history.
OlyviaJaelyn Mamae competes in four different events for the East Anchorage Thunderbird track and field team and she has sprinted to the front of each event.
The Alaska board of the Yukon Quest announced Monday it will no longer be working with the Canadian board to host the 1,000-mile international sled dog race following a dispute in rule changes.
Find out who the Anchorage Wolverines are matched up with in the second round, and review top plays from the week with Austin Sjong from Alaska’s Sports Source.
While everyone is a winner at the Native Youth Olympics by helping sustain culture and tradition, Eden Hopson of the Anchorage A team and Colton Paul from Kipnuk competing for Mt. Edgecumbe High School stole the show.
For the first time in two years, the Senior NYO Games were held in person at the Alaska Airlines Center and the athletes made sure that the wait was worth it.
After a year filled with highs and lows for Anchorage-raised professional basketball player Daishen Nix, his season ended in celebration. Nix starred for the Rio Grand Valley Vipers in the NBA G League Finals, who Beat the Delaware Blue Coats for the championship of the NBA’s developmental league.
Palmer’s Leif Mumma is the latest Alaskan skier to qualify for the Freeride World Tour, a yearly competition among the world’s best backcountry skiers and snowboarders.
After a historic year in Alaska sports, there were many worthy finalists, but only one winner in each of the following categories: Pride of Alaska (Best Athlete), Trajan Langdon Award (leadership, sportsmanship, inspiration) and the Joe Floyd Award (lasting and significant community contribution through sports).
While today was Opening Day for Major League Baseball, Alaska High School baseball is still awaiting the snow to melt before the first pitch can be thrown.
A South Anchorage senior’s love for the sport knows no bounds, borders or boundaries, as it has traveled with him no matter where he is playing "the world’s game."
“We’ve seen kids who are not athletes who get excited about this sport, because (if) they’re not tall they can’t play basketball, they’re not tall they can’t play volleyball, but they want to move around, and a lot of the footwork in badminton is similar to other sports."
Spring sports in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, the Interior, Southeast Alaska and the Anchorage area are all waiting for the same thing: the snow to melt.
Matt Johnson has known for some time that he was going to play hockey in Anchorage, but he wasn’t expecting to skate in front of the community just yet.
A group of Anchorage youth soccer standouts had played their final game as teammates together, but they gathered at The Dome one last time in celebration as they will all continue their careers and education through the sport.
If you haven’t had the chance to watch the best girls player in the state of Alaska, you need too. Sayvia Sellers won’t blow you away in the layup lines but once the game starts you will find yourself buying Sellers game as quick as you can.
Alaska doesn’t make it easy to train for an outdoor sport in the brutal winter, but the AK Firecrackers fast-pitch softball club has a place to train year-round.
After losing the Cook Inlet Conference Championship to Bettye Davis East High School just a week earlier on a buzzer-beater, the South Anchorage Wolverines returned the favor on Saturday night with a 37-35 victory over the Thunderbirds for the state championship.
Michelle Phillips, Mille Porsild and Riley Dyche were all found to have broken part of rule 37 in the Iditarod Rule book stating that “Dogs may not be brought into shelters except for race veterinarians’ medical examination or treatment.”
The Anchorage Christian School Lions dominated the Wasilla Warriors 71-42 to secure their first state title in the 4A division and their sixth straight state title counting their 3A wins dating back to 2017. The Lions were bumped up from 3A to 4A for this season.
The Barrow Whalers used big-time baskets, timely defense and hundreds of fans from their hometown to defeat the Sitka Wolves 51-46 for the program’s fifth state championship and first since 2016.
Six different Service High School student athletes put pen to paper and announced where they would be attending college to play their sport at the next level. Three football players signed, along with two soccer players and, for the first time in Service history, a student is moving on in riflery.
Iditarod musher Sebastien Dos Santos Borges' dog Leon remains missing after it escaped from the returned dog lot at the Ruby checkpoint on March 13, according to race officials.
A talent that grew in Anchorage showcased itself on the national stage Sunday when Clair DeGeorge hoisted the Women’s Ice Hockey National Championship trophy.
Now that the Red and Widow Lanterns have been extinguished and all the mushers are off the trail, they gather in Nome for a banquet to give out awards.
Newhalen lead the game most of the way, but it is March which means anything can happen. The Klawock Chieftains fought back into the game, erasing a 10-point deficit and Klawock’s Lea Armour had a great look at the basket to win the game at the buzzer. Armour’s shot bounced around on the rim but ultimately fell to the side, giving the Malamutes back to back state titles
The Toksook Bay Islanders were the sixth seeded team in the 1A state basketball tournament, but completed their Cinderella story by beating the top seeded Tanana Wolves 51-47 in front of what could have been nearly matched the entire population of the village of Toksook Bay.
The Tikigaq Harpoonerettes came into the state championship game as the second seed, going up against the top seeded Wrangell Wolves. However, the game did not reflect prior seeding as the Tikigaq Harpoonerettes started scoring early from both behind the arc and in the paint to get the job done, winning 56-42.
As the top 15 Iditarod mushers have reached Nome, we hear from Iditarod veteran DeeDee Jonrowe and Alaska’s News Source reporter Beth Verge on the sportsmanship they’ve seen along the trail.
