Three former champions are among a field of 34 mushers as the 54th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race gets underway on an icy, 1,000-mile trek.

Teams in the 2026 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race experienced windchill down to 45 below near McGrath, more than 300 miles into the 1,000-mile trail.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 10—The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Sunday recorded its first 2024 dog death. Around 9:46 a.m. Sunday, a 2-year-old dog ...

Long before there were any visitors at Denali National Park and Preserve, there were sled dogs. "We have had dogs almost continuously for the past 100 years here at the park," Denali kennels manager ...

Mar. 7—A dog on the team of rookie musher Daniel Klein died Friday during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race outside Galena, race officials said. Race marshal Warren Palfrey said in a statement that ...

Big Lake musher Nicolas Petit digs into the parmesan rosemary fingerling potatoes that came with his ribeye steak with gorgonzola truffle butter and sauteed swiss chard. Petit won a gourmet meal ...

A legendary musher shot and killed a moose shortly after the start of the 2024 Iditarod after the moose injured one of his dogs, race officials said Monday. Dallas Seavey, a record-tying five-time ...

Reporter Tawney Beans recently went on a dog-powered ride through Killbuck Marsh in Shreve after reuniting with former ...

Three sled dogs died Monday and another was injured when a snowmachine struck a dog team on the Denali Highway, authorities said. The incident marked the second time in the past month that a ...