This story was produced by KYUK Public Media and Northern Journal. Charlie Chingliak is a budding high-school basketball player in the Western Alaska Native village of Akiachak, and he looks the part ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The rugged Iditarod started Monday, but a dearth of snow forced the iconic dog sled race to start further north and added a new route that allows mushers to bypass barren land, ...

The Idaho Sled Dog Challenge canceled two Iditarod qualifying races due to the lack of snow. Mushers are looking at Canada ...

Alaska is known for its dog mushing, a winter pastime that usually requires snow, whether for competition, recreation, or tourism. In the summertime, some mushers run their dogs using wheeled dog ...

FAIRBANKS — As the sun began to rise over the frozen Tanana River on Saturday, competitors made their way to the start of Alaska’s newest sled dog race, the Tanana Valley Sled Dog Races, or T-Dog. In ...

Dan Seavey, who helped organize the first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and whose son and grandson have each won the famous Alaska race multiple times, has died. He was 87. The Minnesota native, who ...

The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from a contagious disease known as ...