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 ...

and a dog musher in the Thousand Islands is hosting a meet-and-greet this weekend. NCPR provides this essential service. You provide your essential support. You put the "public" in this public ...

“You get the muscle dogs,” he said. Welcome to the mushing-crazed Kuskokwim Delta — the one region of Alaska where the sport of mushing seems to be thriving, not just surviving. Elsewhere in ...

Togo, not Balto, was the driving force behind the 1925 Serum Run to Nome, which found teams of mushers and sled dogs delivering antitoxin to children suffering from diphtheria David Kindy ...

dog sledding! The folks at River Fever Mushing in the Thousand Islands are hosting a meet and greet on Saturday, February 15 to show kids and parents what it takes to run a dog sled team.

Musher Caroline Nevills from Middleton, Idaho, and her sled dog team start the first leg of the two-day, 52-mile Warm Lake Stage Race at the seventh annual Idaho Sled Dog Challenge. / Photo by ...

Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, frostbite, gale-force winds and blinding whiteouts to ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from ...

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 ...

The ceremonial start is the final event before the Idaho Sled Dog Challenge and it brings the community together to meet the mushers and see the dogs run. Firefighters walk the red carpet at the ...