On Feb. 2, 1925, fabled race against time finished in icy Northwest to save children’s lives.

Humans being pulled along on a sled across picturesque, snow-covered landscapes by a group of agile, energetic dogs is an ...

Jaye Foucher is competing in this year's Iditarod, four years after a tragic training accident. In 2022, a pickup truck struck her sled dog team, killing one dog and injuring others. Foucher continues ...

Jessie Holmes, a former reality television star on “Life Below Zero,” won the longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race early Friday morning, crossing under the burled arch in Nome, Alaska, around ...

Jirdes Winther Baxter, the last living survivor of the 1925 Nome diphtheria epidemic, died this month at the age of 101.

Mushing pioneer Mary Shields, who became the first woman to finish the Iditarod in 1974, has been named the 2026 Honorary ...

Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan is about twenty paces wide, curb to curb. Front Street, the main business street in Nome, Alaska, about four thousand air miles to the northwest, is two paces ...

Canada's Yukon Quest sled dog race will not run this year. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported Wednesday that there's nobody left to organize it, according to mushers and former board ...

You don’t have to go to Alaska for dog sled races. Did you know Maine hosts its own dog sled races each year, drawing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “On January 8, 2026, KNQK [The Greenland Dog Sledding Association] received an inquiry from an American journalist stating that ...

Organizers of Greenland’s annual national dog sled race have questioned who invited Donald Trump’s U.S. envoy to the event, saying that its presence would be “wholly inappropriate” amid ongoing ...

The Canadian edition of the Yukon Quest will not run in 2026, according to a Canadian Broadcasting Corp. report. The CBC, citing former Quest board member Andrea Fischer and others, reported there is ...