TAKOTNA — Take care of the dogs, sleep, eat and repeat. That’s the mantra for mushers on their 24-hour breaks during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The 24s, as they’re called, are mandatory and a ...
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race took a deadly turn on Monday. Dallas Seavey, a legendary musher in the race, told officials he was forced to kill a moose after it injured one of his dogs shortly ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Iditarod, the annual sled dog race celebrating Alaska’s official state sport, got underway Saturday with a new focus on safety after five dogs died and eight were injured ...
Justin and Kailyn Olnes with their dog Jig at the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ceremonial start in Anchorage on March 1, 2025. Most mushers in this year's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race are competing ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The world’s most famous sled dog race is longer this year than ever before. Thanks to a lack of snow, this year's edition of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race needed a new ...
Musher Yuka Honda's dogs excitedly wait to run again after recovering from a notoriously tight turn during the 2022 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ceremonial start. The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race ...
FAIRBANKS — As the sun began to rise over the frozen Tanana River on Saturday, competitors made their way to the start of Alaska’s newest sled dog race, the Tanana Valley Sled Dog Races, or T-Dog. In ...
New research examines thousands of years of Arctic sled dog ancestry and reveals when and how Siberian and Alaskan sled dogs' DNA mixed. New research co-led by Cornell University examines thousands of ...
The ice creepers slipped and I tumbled — right in the path of the silvertip. IN VICTORIA LAND, north of Coronation Gulf — as ...
With the first day of winter just days away, many places around the United States have already seen plenty of snow falling this year, though it's probably hard for any of them to compete with Alaska.
The second year of Robert’s Yukon Adventure Day at The Grove National Historic Landmark in Glenview on Jan. 13 had snow, giving outdoor Glenbrook community premises a feeling of what it might be like ...