Mushers said the the altered race route out of Fairbanks was far tougher than they’d anticipated. The last time a winner took more than 10 days to finish was in the early 1990s.

The Open North American Championship, the longest continuously-ran sled dog race in the world, kicked off Friday with a three ...

Mansfield native and Iditarod musher Matthew Failor was just 71 miles away from the burled arch finish line in Nome.

Holmes pumped his fist as he ran alongside his sled with a headlamp beaming from his forehead, as he and his 10-dog team finished the 1,128-mile (1,815-kilometer) race across the Alaska wilderness in ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Jessie Holmes, a former reality television star, won the longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Downtown Anchorage, Alaska, was turned into a giant dog lot on Saturday as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ...

Each year in March, dog sled teams and mushers assemble in Alaska for the Iditarod, one of the most grueling and challenging events in all of sports. Known as "The Last Great Race on Earth," it ...

The 53rd annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race will surely bring plenty of excitement to Alaska. Thirty-three mushers are ready to compete with their teams of dogs, but one big name is not on the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — 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 ...

Thanks to a lack of snow, this year's edition of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race needed a new route across the Alaska wilderness. The course change adds more than 100 miles (161 kilometers), so teams ...

Only 33 mushers will start this year’s race ... the 1925 Serum Run, in which sled dog teams saved Nome from a deadly diphtheria outbreak. That’s a lot of dogs. Each musher must have at ...

Thanks to a lack of snow, this year’s edition of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race needed a new route across the Alaska wilderness. The course change adds more than 161 km, so teams of dogs will have ...