The 54th running of the Iditarod sled dog race kicks off Saturday, March 7, with the traditional ceremonial start in Anchorage, followed by the official start in Willow on Sunday.

Once a troubled young man who felt there was something else for him outside his home in Phenix City, Jessie Holmes is currently leading Alaska’s preeminent sled dog race with halfway to go in the ...

We followed an old rail line in Nome, Alaska to search a gold claim long tied by local legend to Wyatt Earp and Josephine. The goal was simple: find relics from the camp and see whether anything from ...

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Daniel Pau, an information technology specialist assigned to the 1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment, Alaska Army National Guard, operates a high-frequency radio while ...

Out on the Iditarod trail, facing the bitter winds and blistering cold, on those long dark nights as the dogs howl and the trail becomes bumpy enough to shake a musher to the core, is a billionaire.

Veteran musher Jessie Holmes from Brushkana, Alaska, is leading the Iditarod and became the first to reach McGrath. Holmes earned the “Spirit of the Iditarod” award, receiving handcrafted beaver fur ...

Despite their financial contributions, some Iditarod mushers are questioning what two businessmen are doing in Alaska’s Super Bowl of dog mushing.

Alaska State Troopers served a search warrant in Shishmaref linked to illegal homebrew production and sales. Evidence was seized, charges are pending, and authorities seek tips from the public.

Thunder Mountain Middle School Principal Shawn Arnold was one of three finalists for the position and the only current district employee.

Iditarod mushers contended with strong wind and deep cold crossing the Alaska Range on Monday evening and overnight. By Tuesday afternoon, the second full day of racing, almost all of the teams had ...

A former U.S. Geological Survey research scientist reflects on the Trump administration’s sweeping changes in the agency.

Almost everything in and about America’s Far North has changed in unimaginable ways over the course of the last 110 years, but in winter, one thing remains strangely the same. As Archdeacon Hudson ...