Teams of sled dogs and mushers from across the United States and Canada visited Laconia this weekend for the 93rd annual World Championship Sled Dog Derby. Racers were in good spirits, though they ...

Ari Allen doesn’t particularly like being out in the freezing cold on a winter’s day. But her team of Siberian huskies and one Alaskan husky does. “I love my dogs. That’s probably the only motivation ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from a ...

For the love of dogs. “You do it because you love it and the dogs love it,” musher Denise Edwards said during the recent Grand Mesa Summit Challenge Dog Sled Races. “There’s no money in it.” In fact, ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Three additional mushers running at the back of the pack have scratched from this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race after accepting assistance during a massive ground storm.