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 were injured in collisions ...

The Iditarod is already preparing to take care of the 2026 Return Dogs, and they could use the public’s help to do it.

Without Warning is an entertaining, if overwrought, look at Bridget Watkins taking on the Iditarod race twice, and the ...

It was shortly after 1 a.m. February 9 and musher Pete Kaiser, Yup’ik, and his dog team were on their way to a record-tying ninth win in the Kuskokwim 300, the highly regarded mid-distance sled dog ...

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Thirty-three mushers plan to start the world's most famous sled dog race, the Iditarod in Alaska, on March 3. They'll start the race near Fairbanks and run with their teams of sled dogs for about ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska – The 2025 Iditarod race, which normally begins in Anchorage, Alaska, will begin at an alternate location this year due to a lack of snow. The main reason for the relocation to ...

Pike’s Waterfront Lodge COO Michelle Davis fluffs a pillow in one of the resort’s “reindeer rooms” on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. When staff at Pike’s Waterfront Lodge in Fairbanks got the news a few ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — 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 ...

Dan Seavey, who as a history teacher in Alaska became fascinated by the Gold Rush-era Iditarod Trail and helped stage the first dogsled race along the 1,000-mile route in 1973 to begin an annual ...

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, ...