MCCALL, Idaho — For the second year in a row, organizers are modifying the Idaho Sled Dog Challenge in Valley County due to less-than-favorable weather conditions. In 2026, the 100 and 300-mile races ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — 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 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from a ...

Five Indigenous mushers and their dog teams are well into the first leg of the Iditarod. The 1,000-mile race got underway in Willow on Sunday, as mushers headed out onto a vast landscape, covered with ...

Four barking dogs pulled musher Ryan Redington on a four-wheeler across a frozen lake in Knik, about an hour north of Anchorage. Normally, he said, he’d be training on a sled, but it’s been months ...

Mar. 9—On the first full day of competition, Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race competitors were ascending the Alaska Range. By 4 p.m. Monday, a little more than 40 miles separated 2025 champion Jessie ...