Friday marked the start of one of the most iconic events at the Fur Rondy winter festival in Anchorage: the World Championship Sled Dog Races. The three-day sprint mushing event brought veterans and ...

The four dogs hitched to Lily Stewart’s high-tech, 22-pound Danler Hornet racing sled look strangely out of place. They are not your stereotypical sled-dogs—the furry Alaskan huskies most of us ...

John Perry has returned from the World Championship sprint sled dog race in North Pole, Alaska, with a sixth place finish. The trail was fast with perfect temperatures ranging from zero to 10 degrees ...

Advantage, sprinter. Sprint mushing star Blayne Streeper convincingly outdueled distance mushing star Lance Mackey to claim his second straight championship in the International Stage Stop sled dog ...

Sprint mushers young and old took to the trails at Tozier Track in Anchorage on Sunday during the Norma Rasmussen Memorial Race. The sprint races were the first Alaskan Sled Dog and Racing Association ...

There’s a whole world of dog-powered sports that goes far beyond mushing huskies in the Iditarod. Instead, imagine specially bred sprint dogs teamed with humans on foot, skis, bikes, sleds, carts and ...

The high-speed styles of sprint mushing and skijoring were on display in the opening days of the 2024 Annamaet Limited North American Championships (LNAC). Mushers participated in a variety of events ...

FAIRBANKS - George Attla Jr., unmatched sprint racing champion and one of Alaska's most decorated mushers, died Sunday at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage at the age of 81. Attla, known ...

Tabernash dog musher Kathy Burke has been racing locally for 20 years, but this October, she will face a next-level ...

Musher Andre Longchamps of Trilongmiles Kennel out of Pont-Rouge, Quebec, Canada, and his sled team take off from the starting point for the UP 200 in downtown Marquette, Friday, Feb. 17, 2017.

The most well-known sled dog race is undoubtedly the Iditarod Trail, a 1,049-mile trek through the Alaskan wilderness that has been run in no fewer than eight days and 18 hours. Usually, though, sled ...

TOWN OF TEXAS - The winningest sled-dog racer on the planet was lying in a hospital bed — her thighbone crushed, her kneecap cracked and her collarbone snapped — when her husband handed a cellphone to ...