On Feb. 2, 1925, the legendary Alaska Serum Run ended as the last of a series of dog mushers brought life-saving medication ...

Nome, Alaska, remembers its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, ...

Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through ...

The temperature hovered around freezing in New York’s Central Park on December 15, 1925. Clad in a thick fur coat, Alaskan ...

While some changes in mushing come from development in the sport, others have been forced by a changing climate. One part of ...

Balto and a portion of the team were confined to the back room Los Angeles dime museum before they were purchased by a ...

This year's Iditarod starts March 1. “The Serum Run demonstrated the critical role sled dogs played in the survival and communication of remote Alaskan communities, while the Iditarod has ...

Clad in a thick fur coat, Alaskan sled-dog musher Gunnar Kaasen stood next to the hero of the moment: Balto, a Siberian husky who’d helped deliver medicine across a frozen frontier to halt a ...