Iditarod musher Petit and his dogs chow down in Ruby after arriving first to the Yukon River town
Both the Big Lake musher and his voracious huskies were eager to eat, having made it to the Yukon River first Thursday night.
Yukon Quest is rerouted off Yukon River due to unsafe ice conditions
All race checkpoints will now be road accessible, a change that could increase entries before a sign up deadline that’s been extended until Friday.
Rick Swenson Withdraws From Iditarod
Rick Swenson won't make the trip to Nome this year. Race officaials say Swenson withdrew from the Iditarod on Thursday. Swenson, the only five-time champion in the history of the race, cited personal reasons.
Dallas Seavey First to White Mountain, Maintains Iditarod Lead
Dallas Seavey was the first musher to arrive in White Mountain Tuesday morning. It’s the second to last stop along the Iditarod trail. Teams will take an eight-hour mandatory rest there, before the make the final push for Nome.
Aliy Zirkle Journeys Through Ceremonial Start
Video by Josh Edge, APRN - Anchorage
This year, musher Aliy Zirkle allowed APRN to attach a camera to her sled for the ceremonial start...
Fast Pace Marks First Hours of Iditarod
Photo by Lori Townsend, APRN - Anchorage
Fans and supporters turned out in force Saturday to cheer on their favorite mushers.
This year's Iditarod is...
‘We got us a dog race’: Iditarod neck-and-neck-and-neck as leaders push toward finish
The Iditarod’s five top mushers were running within two hours of each other Saturday as they started their last push to the finish line, with Aaron Burmeister of Nome seizing the lead in search of his first victory.
Dan Kaduce is the only Iditarod musher still racing with a 14-dog team. Here’s how.
Chatanika musher Kaduce says it’s a combination of luck and good dog care habits that have helped him surge to the front of the pack,
Alaska News Nightly: January 5, 2009
Bitterly cold temperatures are still gripping most of the state, but it warmed up enough in Anchorage today to hold the first of the...
Iditapod: A new Norwegian champ, and the runner-up reflects
The Iditarod has crowned a new Norwegian champion: Joar Leifseth Ulsom. The 31-year-old pulled under Nome’s Burled Arch at 3 a.m. Wednesday with eight dogs in harness to claim his first championship, taking the win in Iditarod 46. Ulsom is the first Norwegian musher to win the thousand-mile sled dog race since Robert Sørlie in 2005. Girdwood's Nicolas Petit arrived a little over two hours later, and he spoke to reporters about how his race went and where it went wrong.
Junior Iditarod Mushers Overnight in Yentna
Seward’s Conway Seavey has won the Junior Iditarod. Seavey arrived at the last checkpoint in Willow in 15 hours 52 minutes after the race’s start on Saturday.
Our 16 favorite photos of frosty Iditarod mushers and fuzzy muzzles
With temperatures plunging deep into the negatives on Tuesday, mushers and dogs sported a coating of frost when they pulled into Nikolai, a small village about a quarter of the way into the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Petit lead disappears as Ulsom overtakes on coast
There's been a shakeup along the Iditarod trail. Bad weather along the coast earlier today hampered the race's front runners. Listen now
Dallas Seavey, Aaron Burmeister Battle For Iditarod Lead
Dallas Seavey and Aaron Burmeister are running neck-and-neck down the Yukon River, leading the Iditarod field between Tanana and Ruby.
Iditapod: Kaiser poised for first Iditarod win
Heading into a final, mandatory, eight-hour rest in White Mountain about 40 minutes in the lead, Bethel's Peter Kaiser could be set up to win his first Iditarod in his team's 10th race. But anything can happen in that final 77 miles, and the defending champ, Joar Leifseth Ulsom, is not far behind. We also talk to some former champs about how they're in the middle of the pack and running a totally different kind of race. Plus: There's no sea ice! But there is Snack Attack with Ben and Zach!
Iditapod: Race day 3, and tricky mushing out of Rainy Pass
Things get pretty technical for Iditarod mushers heading out of the Rainy Pass checkpoint and into the Dalzell Gorge before Rohn and Nikolai. Plus, we hear from animal-rights activist and documentary filmmaker Fern Levitt, and we get four-time Iditarod Jeff King's take on criticism of dog mushing.
Ketchikan Musher Enjoying Hometown Support
Jerzy Shedlock, APRN - Anchorage
Ketchikan has a hometown favorite in the last great race thanks to Angie Taggart. Wearing bib number 19 Taggart has...
Iditarod Teams Rest Up for A Big Push as They Near the Yukon
As teams come off their mandatory 24-hour rest and head for the Yukon River, they’ll be thinking of how best to pick up the pace in what is turning out to be one of the most dramatic, but also the most competitive races in Iditarod history.
After a bruising 2016, Martin Buser upbeat for 2017
Last year, Martin Buser had a tough Iditarod. He finished in 37th place, his lowest position on the leader-board in a decades-long career. But this year, as the four-time champion charges through the race’s early checkpoints, a lot of things are going better.
Race Leaders on the Yukon
Tim Bodony, APRN – Anvik
The leaders of the 2011 Iditarod are on the Yukon.
Sebastian Schnuelle is currently leading mushers in the Iditarod, ...