Frontrunner Josi Shelley said her team of 12 sailed along the Yukon River, but the extreme temperatures were wearing on her.

Competitors took to the snowy trail as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race kicked off Sunday in Alaska following a trying year for the annual event. Musher Cody Strathe of Fairbanks and his 16-dog team ...

The popularity of long-distance mushing has been waning in recent years, a trend propelled by rising costs and a fading appetite for racing long, unsupported stretches through Alaska wilderness. But ...

Mushers will launch out the chute behind the Morris Thompson Cultural Visitors Center on Saturday morning at 11 a.m. to kick ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska musher Dallas Seavey moved into the lead of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Sunday as top teams bunched up before the last mad dash to Nome along the Bering Sea coast ...

WILLOW, Alaska (AP) — The Latest on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska (all times local): 2:30 p.m. The world's most famous sled dog race is underway in Alaska. The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Mushers and their dogs in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race face plenty of variables in the Alaska wilderness. An unexpected one this year has been heat that is taking a toll in a ...

Nov. 14—A critically acclaimed movie about a famed Alaska Native musher will return to the big screen Sunday for a rare showing. "Spirit of the Wind" immortalized the life of the late mushing champion ...