The Alaska race is still on track to run its longest route since the Quest split in 2022. And its board president is hoping ...

The Alaska version of the race is scheduled to start Feb. 7 in Fairbanks, with some competitors set to follow a new 750-mile ...

Alaskan huskies at Iditarod champion Martin Buser's Happy Trails kennel in Big Lake, Alaska, are ready to run in June 2024. From owning huskies, Alaskan and Siberian, to following the Iditarod every ...

Ashley Keith used to always dream about joining the world of professional sled dog racing. She got her first sled dog when she was 13 years old and fantasized about one day participating in the ...

Children play with "Sophia" an Alaskan husky owned by musher Karen Land on Friday. Land, a three-time participant in the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — 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 route ...

Local mushers compete in the 2025 Akiak Dash. This story was produced by KYUK and Northern Journal. Charlie Chingliak is a budding high school basketball player in the Western Alaska Native village of ...

Alaska’s Mat-Su Valley is a major dog-mushing hub, even in the snow-free offseason. Several Iditarod mushers live and train their teams in the Mat-Su town of Willow, which experiences near ...

Togo, not Balto, was the driving force behind the 1925 Serum Run to Nome, which found teams of mushers and sled dogs delivering antitoxin to children suffering from diphtheria David Kindy - ...

The Idaho Sled Dog Challenge canceled two Iditarod qualifying races due to the lack of snow. Mushers are looking at Canada ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The rugged Iditarod started Monday, but a dearth of snow forced the iconic dog sled race to start further north and added a new route that allows mushers to bypass barren land, ...