Musher is trying to become third member of his family to win the 1,100-mile race. Zack Steer drives his dog team into the Nikolai, Alaska checkpoint of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A musher reached an Iditarod milestone and was feted with prizes made from beaver and moose. The oldest musher in the race has called it quits. And a four-time champion finds ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Rick Mackey, a musher who won the 1983 Iditarod race, died Monday after a 19-month battle with cancer. He was 71. Mackey, of Nenana, was part of an Alaska mushing dynasty that ...

NOME, Alaska - Lance Mackey couldn’t shake four-time champion Jeff King and his faster team. So Mackey pulled off a stunt at the Elim checkpoint — 123 miles from the Nome finish line — that proved to ...

Gray nylon hat with brown beaver fur trim around the face and in the lining used by four time Iditarod and four time Yukon Quest champion Lance Mackey throughout much of his career. Lance Mackey, a ...

Four-time Iditarod champ Lance Mackey at the Fur Rendezvous World Championship sled dog races in Anchorage on February 28, 2020. (Marc Lester / ADN) Lance Mackey, an Alaska mushing champion who won ...

I made a few phone calls this Friday and gathered that the Thursday Musher Meeting -- which is closed to the public, but leaks a little after 62 mushers wander around Anchorage for a day -- was quiet ...

In this March 6, 1999 file photo, soap opera star Susan Lucci takes a ride in the sled of musher Rick Mackey at the start of the 27th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Al ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Lance Mackey sees no limit to what he and his dogs can do. "Every year I learn something more about my dogs," said Mackey, one of 67 mushers who will line up Saturday in downtown ...