The Iditarod, Alaska’s celebrated annual sled dog race, has heightened its safety measures after five dogs lost their lives. Worse still, another eight suffered injuries due to snowmobile collisions ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Iditarod, the annual sled dog race celebrating Alaska’s official state sport, is set to get underway Saturday with a new focus on safety after five dogs died and eight ...

Matthew Milliken and his teammate Dizzy are packing the campervan for the Czech Republic to take part in a cross-country ...

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 ...

SEELEY LAKE – When Clayton Perry starts hooking his sled dogs into their harnesses, they know it’s time to run. By the time the musher from Power clipped the last animal onto the line for a fall ...

It may have been cold and windy on Sunday at Camp Hale, but that did not stop the Rocky Mountain Sled Dog Club members and affiliates from spending hours outside, having fun and competing in dog ...

Well-known Beargrease musher and 2023 Iditarod champion Ryan Redington is back in the Northland and shared about a “dream come true” at Thursday’s Duluth Rotary Club meeting. “It’s been crazy. Life ...

In veterinary school I was taught that dogs are physically incapable of smiling, because they lack the necessary facial muscles. I doubt the veterinarians who determined this ever witnessed the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A bull moose spent more than an hour stomping on the sled dog team of a rookie Iditarod musher in the wilds of Alaska last week. The attack didn’t end even after Bridgett ...