The winner of last year's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska says he's feeling intense pressure to repeat as champion.

Alaska Natives have used dog sleds as a means of transportation for hundreds of years; Potts-Joseph, who was born in Fairbanks but is based now in Eagle Village on the Upper Yukon River, has run them ...

Four barking dogs pulled musher Ryan Redington on a four-wheeler across a frozen lake in Knik, about an hour north of Anchorage. Normally, he said, he’d be training on a sled, but it’s been months ...

Due to a serious lack of snow, Northwest sled dog races are facing cancellation, sending a rippling disappointment through ...

Mushers competing in this year's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race departed from Willow Lake early Sunday afternoon, embarking on ...

Alaska’s Mat-Su Valley is a major dog-mushing hub, even in the snow-free offseason. Several Iditarod mushers live and train their teams in the Mat-Su town of Willow, which experiences near ...

The Iditarod has returned to Anchorage as hundreds of dogs and their mushers line up for the race's ceremonial start.

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Allen, an English professor at the University of Maine at Presque Isle by day, steals a couple of early mornings each week to run her dogs when the trails are the quietest.

(CNN) — Humans being pulled along on a sled across picturesque, snow-covered landscapes by a group of agile, energetic dogs is an image that won’t be seen at Milan Cortina in 2026, but the practice of ...