The village is on the Iditarod trail, route of the world's most famous sled dog race, during which mushers and their teams must cross the frozen Norton Sound.Nome, a Gold Rush town, is just south ...

The Bering Air Cessna 208B Grand Caravan EX, carrying nine passengers and a pilot, vanished over Norton Sound, south of the Arctic Circle, on Thursday afternoon. The flight departed Unalakleet at ...

A plane carrying 10 people seemingly vanished while flying over Alaska’s Norton Sound south of the Arctic Circle, triggering a desperate search along the state’s western coast on Friday. The ...

Coast Guard officials believe all 10 people aboard are dead. The plane was over the Norton Sound, off the coast of its destination in Nome, Alaska, when it stopped sending its location signal on ...

As the broad-beamed U.S. Navy missile-test ship Norton Sound pulled away from her dock at Port Hueneme, Calif, shortly after dusk one day last August, a dockhand bellowed to Captain Arthur Gralla ...

A commuter plane that fell from the sky as it flew over Alaska’s Norton Sound last month was more than 1,000 pounds overweight at the time of takeoff, according to a preliminary report released ...