After spending over 1,000 miles crossing through Alaska, Iron Dog Pro Class racers have reached the race's halfway point in ...

Officials say nine people and one pilot were on board the Cessna heading to Nome from Unalakleet.

Just hours after finding 10 people dead in western Alaska from one of the deadliest plane crashes in the state in 25 years, ...

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

Long's writings about animal behavior and ... as part of a gold rush. Nome was built on gold and dogs. From 1908 it became increasingly famous for the All Alaska Sweepstakes: a grueling sled ...

But the summer change has been more intense in the western range, particularly in coastal areas off Nome and ... that the animals eat. A large die-off followed, according to the Alaska Department ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

In January 1925, it wasn’t the cold that sent shivers down the spine of Curtis Welch, the only doctor in Nome, Alaska (population 1,400). It was the realization children were dying from an outbreak of ...

100 years ago: Dogsleds deliver antitoxins for diphtheria outbreak in Nome, Alaska On February 2 ... A statue to one of these animals, Balto, stands in New York City’s Central Park.

Even though Maine already has 31 official state symbols — including a soil type, soft drink, fossil and insect — there seems to be a tendency to focus on what we don't have. Take for example two ...

Togo became famous after leading a dog team that delivered a life-saving diphtheria serum to sick children in Nome, Alaska ... insect and animal were added. They were followed in the ’80s ...

An aircraft carrying 10 people across Alaska’s Norton Sound south of the Arctic Circle went missing Thursday afternoon and ...