Thirty-three mushers plan to start the world's most famous sled dog race, the Iditarod in Alaska, on March 3. They'll start the race near Fairbanks and run with their teams of sled dogs for about ...
The stereotypical sled dog racing image is a solitary figure mushing dogs through harsh winter weather. It couldn't have been more different Friday in Frazee, as schoolchildren and other spectators ...
Tabernash dog musher Kathy Burke has been racing locally for 20 years, but this October, she will face a next-level ...
The Iditarod and the Yukon Quest may be the first races to come to mind when thinking about sled dog racing for many Alaskans, but the sport encompasses so many other distances and types of races as ...
For Mark and Julie Owczarzack of Norway, the road to international acclaim in sled dog racing did not, as you might expect, begin with dreams of thousand-mile expeditions across the Alaskan wilderness ...
The Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Races, one of the premier winter sporting events in the Northeast, returns to Fort ...
Charlie Chingliak is a budding high school basketball player in the Western Alaska Native village of Akiachak, and he looks the part — sporting two stud earrings in each ear and a stylish hoodie ...
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 ...
The North Shore Community School hosted a special day of learning for its second graders. For 18 years, the school hosts its Ikidarod race. The kids pretend to be mushers and sled dogs as they race ...
Located deep in the woods of Ely, lies a special kind of dog kennel, one made specifically for sled dogs. “We have around 90 dogs here. They are age ranges in the mid to upper ages. This is an old ...
The granddaddy of all sled dog races kicks off in Fairbanks this coming weekend. What? Are they re-doing the Iditarod? No: it is the 69th running of the Open North American Sled Dog Race. This race is ...