Alaskan Malamutes were originally bred as working sled dogs and they have extremely high energy levels. As such, they are ...

High school boys in Akiachak can “forget the muscle cars,” said Barron Sample, principal of the village’s school. “You get ...

as 20 mushers — many of them Alaska Natives — with more than 150 dogs relayed the serum to Nome. They battled deep snow, whiteouts so severe they couldn’t see the dogs in front of them ...

While some changes in mushing come from development in the sport, others have been forced by a changing climate. One part of ...

Throughout its rich history in Alaska, the tradition of mushing has changed with the times and shifted to adapt to a changing ...

Nome, Alaska, remembers its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, ...

including his lead dog Balto, top row, second left, in 1925, which he drove through a blinding blizzard to deliver ...