IRON RIVER, Wis.– After having to cancel last year, the dogs are let out for the Northern Pines Dog Sled Race. Officals say ...

Samoyed – A beautiful, white fluffy breed from Siberia, highly rare due to its climate needs. Saluki – A Middle Eastern sighthound, extremely fast but uncommon in India. Tibetan Mastiff – A large, ...

While some changes in mushing come from development in the sport, others have been forced by a changing climate. One part of ...

Nome, Alaska, remembers its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, ...

Throughout its rich history in Alaska, the tradition of mushing has changed with the times and shifted to adapt to a changing ...

This year’s Iditarod starts March 1. “The Serum Run demonstrated the critical role sled dogs played in the survival and communication of remote Alaskan communities, while the Iditarod has ...

Clad in a thick fur coat, Alaskan sled-dog musher Gunnar Kaasen stood next to the hero of the moment: Balto, a Siberian husky who’d helped deliver medicine across a frozen frontier to halt a ...

They were part of a group of mushers and sled dogs that braved frigid conditions to bring life-saving serum to the Alaska town of Nome 100 years ago. Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome ... Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through ...