Former reality TV star Jessie Holmes cruised to a repeat victory in the Iditarod, the roughly 1,000-mile sled dog race in ...

Alaska Natives have used dog sleds as a means of transportation for hundreds of years; Potts-Joseph, who was born in ...

Alaska’s last great race has struggled to keep up its finances and increase participation. Now, a $300,000 gift from an “expedition musher” promises to transform the event. Colin Warren This story was ...

Jessie Holmes won the 54th Iditarod in Alaska Tuesday, March 17, becoming only the sixth musher to win the race in ...

The veteran musher, who has competed in six previous Iditarods, scratched at 11:43 a.m. with 13 dogs in harness. In ...

Paper sled dogs at Bayshore Elementary photographed on Feb. 20, 2026 will be moved to different checkpoints when students read a certain amount of minutes. As sled dog teams mush the 1,000-mile ...

Mar. 7—As snow fell in Anchorage on Saturday, the 54th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race launched from downtown during Saturday's ceremonial start as crowds cheered on a parade of mushers. The field, which ...

Dec. 9—The Iditarod Trail Committee, the organization overseeing the annual thousand-mile sled dog race across Alaska, has a new race marshal. In an announcement Tuesday, the Iditarod Trail Committee ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The world’s most famous sled-dog race, celebrated by Alaskans for half a century but long condemned by animal-rights activists as inhumane, is losing one of its biggest ...

For mushers, dog racing is not just how they explore Alaska—it’s an all-consuming lifestyle. But just what goes into this sport? In this episode, we hear from AddieAnn Randall, a teenage musher and ...

Defending Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion Jessie Holmes poses for a selfie with a fan during the ceremonial start of this year's race in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday, March 7, 2026.