Mar. 7—A dog on the team of rookie musher Daniel Klein died Friday during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race outside Galena, race officials said. Race marshal Warren Palfrey said in a statement that ...

How does traveling nearly 1000 miles in the Alaskan wilderness in the middle of winter sound? Each year in March, dog sled teams and mushers assemble in Alaska for the Iditarod, one of the most ...

Mar. 25—Iditarod rookie Quince Mountain was at the back of the pack. It was Wednesday, March 12, just about 10 days since Mountain and the other mushers in this year's extra-long Iditarod Trail Sled ...

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

Mushers in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race started arriving on the traditional stretch of the Yukon River overnight into Thursday, making a shift in this year’s modified route with an early leg ...

Thirty-three sled dog teams raced out of Fairbanks Monday onto the longest Iditarod trail in history. The last-minute plan to change the route went off without a hitch despite significant changes to ...

An Anchorage man who recently visited young fans of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Kenya brought back handmade gifts for its mushers this week. Brad Schmitz coordinates tours for English language ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Iditarod has punished three mushers for taking their dogs inside shelter cabins during fierce storms at the tail end of this year's race. Mushers Mille Porsild of Denmark ...

Jessie Holmes was the first musher to depart from the Safety checkpoint Thursday, leaving just before midnight and on track to win his first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Holmes, who finished third in ...

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 ...

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, ...