Writer Lale Arikoglu follows the historic 1,000 mile sled dog race to find out why it still captures so many imaginations.

This year the Iditarod will honor another famous route: the 1925 Serum Run, in which sled dog teams saved Nome from a deadly diphtheria outbreak. That’s a lot of dogs. Each musher must have at ...

The Tolovana Roadhouse — built in 1924 and used to provide shelter during the Serum Run of 1925 — once again hosted mushers ...

Mushers said the altered race route out of Fairbanks was far tougher than they’d anticipated. The last time a winner took ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Jessie Holmes, a former reality television star, won the longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on ...

Over the course of more than half a century, the Iditarod dog sled race has grown into one of America’s iconic sporting events. Teams of mushers battle through blizzards, subzero temperatures ...

I’m not sure who’s having more fun, musher Michael Tarver or his sled dogs as we charge on through the white wonderland.

Jessie Holmes, a former reality television star, won the longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska on Friday, celebrating with fist pumps to a cheering crowd and posing for photos with ...

Drawing from his experience running a successful mushing and guiding business in British Columbia and Alberta, Matthew ...

German Francesco Friedrich won a record-extending 16th men’s bobsled world title, while Laura Nolte led a German medals sweep of the two-woman event to end the World Championships in Lake Placid, New ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Germany’s Johannes Lochner, Florian Bauer, Jörn Wenzel and Georg Fleischhauer load their sled at the ...