Local mushers compete in the 2025 Akiak Dash. This story was produced by KYUK and Northern Journal. Charlie Chingliak is a budding high school basketball player in the Western Alaska Native ...

RELATED: From parking lots to race tracks: The secret behind the UP200’s downtown snow track The shortest of the three dog sled races, The Jack Pine 30, concluded Saturday morning. Musher ...

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 ...

Seventeen mushers will lead teams consisting of 12 dogs ... take off at 8:30 p.m. This year 19 teams are competing in the 8-dog, 82-mile race that runs to Chatham and back. The first teams start ...

"When I first got into dog mushing, dry land racing was, like, kind of a new thing," she said, "and now, it's super popular, because we don't have the good winters anymore, typically." But this ...

This story was produced by KYUK and Northern Journal. Charlie Chingliak is a budding high school basketball player in the Western Alaska village of Akiachak, and he looks the part — sporting two stud ...

Local sled dog racers are gearing up to bring their dogs back onto the snowy tails, after the 2024 season that confined them to the dry land circuit. Mushers say the sport is growing statewide.

They are getting ready now, wondering if the race will bring prize money, glory to their dogs, or just some quiet laughter from the other mushers. The Iditarod Trail. It has come to mean “The Trail” ...

but at 6:25 a.m. PST Tuesday the Idaho Sled Dog Challenge announced it was canceling the remainder of the race. "The safety of our mushers and their teams is paramount," race co-founder and trails ...

and mushers of the Kuskokwim 300 Sled Dog Race (K300) and Akiak Dash. As K300 Race Manager Paul Basile mentioned in his opening remarks, the 2025 running of the race was a feat of its own to even make ...