A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 2, 1925, the legendary Alaska Serum ...

Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through ...

The temperature hovered around freezing in New York’s Central Park on December 15, 1925. Clad in a thick fur coat, Alaskan ...

Balto and a portion of the team were confined to the back room Los Angeles dime museum before they were purchased by a ...

as 20 mushers — many of them Alaska Natives — with more than 150 dogs relayed the serum to Nome. They battled deep snow, whiteouts so severe they couldn’t see the dogs in front of them ...

Online viewers look on in horror as influencer slaps and gags struggling canine while giving it a bath until animal is ...

Instead, officials shipped the serum by rail to Nenana in interior Alaska, some 675 miles from Nome via the frozen Yukon River and mail trails. FILE – Leonhard Seppala and his sled dog team are ...

The Yukon Quest Alaska brought together thousands of Fairbanksans to celebrate mushing on Saturday. This year marks Emily ...