Nome, Alaska, remembers its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, ...

The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and under siege from a contagious disease known as the “strangling ...

Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, frostbite, gale ... a leading cause of death for children.

The county is now no longer under warning - but the coastline remains under a gale force warning until 5pm today ...

Cronulla pressed the line in the early exchanges, but it was Penrith who struck first in the eighth minute. Proving a handful ...

That storm killed 18 people in Ireland, 12 people in the Republic and six in Northern Ireland. Hopefully, with a better warning systems this time, there will be no repeat of that death toll.

The storm is set to sweep across the island early on Friday, with gale to storm force southerly ... This has the potential to cause travel disruption, power cuts and damage to building and homes ...

IRELAND will be smashed by fierce winds gusting over 150kph, battering rain and heavy snowfall as Storm Eowyn makes landfall ... warned could be "potentially gale force". And weather boffins ...

The night will get increasingly windy as Storm Éowyn arrives from the west. On Friday, there will be widespread disruption through the morning and gale force ... not likely to cause disruption.

READ MORE: Storm Eowyn officially named as Ireland to be battered by gale-force winds and heavy rain ... start to be felt late on Thursday and will cause dangerous travelling conditions on Friday ...