"It is understood that, in rare circumstances, dog harm or death can occur through no fault of the musher," the Iditarod rule ...

Long before there were any visitors at Denali National Park and Preserve, there were sled dogs. "We have had dogs almost continuously for the past 100 years here at the park," Denali kennels manager ...

Race officials said that Porsild scratched at the Elim checkpoint pursuant to the Iditarod’s rule on dog deaths.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 10—The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Sunday recorded its first 2024 dog death. Around 9:46 a.m. Sunday, a 2-year-old dog ...

Dec. 13—Three sled dogs died Monday and another was injured when a snowmachine struck a dog team on the Denali Highway, authorities said. The incident marked the second time in the past month that a ...

A legendary musher shot and killed a moose shortly after the start of the 2024 Iditarod after the moose injured one of his dogs, race officials said Monday. Dallas Seavey, a record-tying five-time ...

Mar. 7—A dog on the team of rookie musher Daniel Klein died Friday during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race outside Galena, race officials said. Race marshal Warren Palfrey said in a statement that ...

Two Canadian teens are reviving dog mushing despite the sport’s decline. Learn how elders and dedication keep this tradition ...

Legendary Iditarod musher Dallas Seavey was given a two-hour penalty for insufficiently gutting the moose he killed to protect himself and his dogs shortly after the start of the race, officials said ...

If climate change really gets going, Alaska might learn something from southern California. That's where some people have been using sled dogs without snow. The group is called Southern California ...

Imagine being in grade school, walking into the school yard to hear the excited howling and barking of sled dogs, jumping in ...