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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...