Mushers Begin Rugged Iditarod Race After Lack of Snow Forces Major Changes to Iconic Alaska Event ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The rugged Iditarod started Monday, but a dearth of snow forced the iconic ...

How does traveling nearly 1000 miles in the Alaskan wilderness in the middle of winter sound? Each year in March, dog sled ...

This year’s Klondike Dog Derby in Excelsior is featuring some of the youngest mushers in the race’s history. About 300 dogs and their mushers put together final preparations for Saturday’s race in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Gold ...

Matt Hall's Smokin Ace Kennel team departs Rainy Pass. (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) RAINY PASS LODGE — Rookie Eddie Burke Jr. wiped sweat from his brow Monday as he filled bowls of water for his ...

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 ...

This year marks the 50th running of the Iditarod, an improbable event that few expected was even possible, let alone likely to endure for half a century. The first race was a moonshot, a half-baked ...

Read full article: Houston unveils plans for downtown ‘Front Door Superhub’ to tackle homelessness ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles ...