To many casual onlookers, the Iditarod is a weird curiosity. The famed sled-dog race, which begins this year on March 1, tasks mushers with trekking roughly 1,000 miles across the snowy Alaskan ...

The annual race, which begins in Duluth and runs more than 300 miles, is a qualifier for the world-famous Iditarod and ...

Three siblings from Coalville are taking family bonding to another level — training for months at a time, trekking over snowy, mountainous terrain and enduring days of sleep deprivation as they race ...

Three teams hit the trail earlier this month for a reenactment of the 1925 Serum Run to Nome, a legendary effort that is credited with saving the town from diphtheria.

For the third time in a decade, the teams are leaving out of Fairbanks because of bare trail on part of the route out of ...

High school boys in one Kuskokwim River village can 'forget the muscle cars,' said Barron Sample, principal of the school there. 'You get the muscle dogs,' he said ...

The race is meant to commemorate and celebrate the history of Alaska and the critical part that sled dogs have played in the ...

Millions of people across the U.S. are on alert for dangerously cold temperatures in the wake of a deadly winter storm that ...

The Willow community will feel the effects of the move of the Iditarod Restart to Fairbanks, according to residents. While ...

Mansfield native Matthew Failor isn't convinced the Iditarod needed to change its path across Alaska this year.

Iditarod race, which normally begins in Anchorage, Alaska, will begin at an alternate location this year due to a lack of ...

As the dog teams competing in the 2014 Yukon Quest rested at the race’s halfway point in Dawson City, I drove my Jeep Grand ...