A musher prepares food for his team in Circle during the 2021 Yukon Quest 300 miler. (Lex Treinen/KUAC) Four top-five Iditarod mushers are signed up for this weekend’s Yukon Quest Alaska 550-mile race ...

CHUGIAK, ALASKA — Fargo native Jim Lanier came through mostly unscathed, suffering a gash to his face, bruised ribs and frostbite on his fingers, toes and nose in a grueling sled dog race. The most ...

Jennifer LaBar heads off on the 300-mile Yukon Quest. LaBar scratched from the race in Central. (Lex Treinen/KUAC) The Yukon Quest Alaska has revised its 2024 race plan. The organization has decided ...

Most Alaskans are aware of the Yukon Quest. It has been called the “little brother of the Iditarod.” And, indeed, it was. Colder, darker, and with fewer teams entering — it was indeed the little ...

Brent Sass learned a few hard lessons in getting run down by 16-year-old musher Emily Robinson at last month’s Knik 200. Sass, a distance musher champion with Iditarod and Yukon Quest titles, ...

Eighteen mushers and their canine companions skipped town Saturday morning, leading off the 2023 Yukon Quest Alaska as they glided toward the frozen Chena River en route to the first checkpoint in Two ...

This year’s Yukon Quest Alaska is certainly embracing the cold, so much so that organizers have moved the starting line of Saturday’s race ... again. Originally slated for a Chena River start, the ...

The second year of Robert’s Yukon Adventure Day at The Grove National Historic Landmark in Glenview on Jan. 13 had snow, giving outdoor Glenbrook community premises a feeling of what it might be like ...

Winter is the ‘hottest’ time of year in the Yukon – for festivals that is! Try northern traditions like can-can dancing and chainsaw chucking at the Yukon Rendezvous or watch the legendary Yukon Quest ...

Alaska is proving a challenging state to traverse for the three "old guy'' snowmobilers who set out March 6 from Grand Rapids, Minn., for Fairbanks. Beginning as an adventure that Paul Dick, 72, Rex ...