When Karen Land was a young adult hiking the Appalachian Trail, a librarian recommended a book that inspired her to shift the ...

Pulled by seven dogs in pink-and-blue booties and carrying a pink, white, and blue trans pride flag, Iditarod competitor Apayauq Reitan drove her sled through the streets of Nome, Alaska, late at ...

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Sunday recorded its first 2024 dog death. Around 9:46 a.m. Sunday, a 2-year-old dog named Bog running on rookie Isaac Teaford’s team collapsed about 200 feet ...

Iditarod officials on Wednesday imposed a two-hour time penalty on musher Dallas Seavey for not properly gutting the moose he killed during the race earlier this week. Race marshal Warren Palfrey ...

Three merciful mushers were quietly penalized during an iconic Alaskan dog sled race for breaking rules by sheltering their animals during a fierce winter storm. Mille Porsild of Denmark, Michelle ...

With days likely left in the sled dog race, one of the frontrunners has been given a 2-hour time penalty after officials deemed he didn't sufficiently gut a moose that got tangled with his dog team.

KNIK LAKE, Alaska — Ellen Redington had taught her little brother everything she knew about mushing, and finally she watched him pass her on a frozen lake during the 10th mile of the Junior Iditarod ...

EAGLE ISLAND, Alaska — Duluth resident Emily Ford was running midpack a week into her debut in the famed Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Ford was in 13th place overall out of a field of 33 entries that ...

WILLOW, Alaska — The race to Nome began Sunday for 33 mushers in this year's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska. Jessie Holmes. an Alabama native living in the Alaska community of Brushkana, was ...

Iditarod musher Pete Kaiser arrives at the Unalakleet checkpoint on March 13, 2022. This year, mushers will race out of Fairbanks and rejoin the traditional route in Unalakleet. (Jeff Chen/Alaska ...

At the registration deadline this past week, Alaska’s most storied sports spectacle has drawn its smallest field in 50 years. Thirty-four mushers have signed up to run the 2023 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog ...