TAKOTNA, Alaska — A 61-year-old rookie Iditarod musher turned up on the wrong trail Thursday, hours after race officials started to search for the woman thought lost along a treacherous stretch.

Five Indigenous mushers and their dog teams are well into the first leg of the Iditarod. The 1,000-mile race got underway in Willow on Sunday, as mushers headed out onto a vast landscape, covered with ...

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

Mar. 25—Iditarod rookie Quince Mountain was at the back of the pack. It was Wednesday, March 12, just about 10 days since Mountain and the other mushers in this year's extra-long Iditarod Trail Sled ...

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

WASILLA, Alaska (KTUU) - The historic Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race will soon have a Hall of Fame to “celebrate the people and dogs who have defined Alaska’s greatest tradition,” the Iditarod Trail ...

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 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Iditarod veteran musher DeeDee Jonrowe watched Mille Porsild’s sled dog team with the pride a mother feels for a child. Two of her dogs, Lion and Elora, were running on ...