Due to low snowpack south of the Alaska Range, Alaska is seeing an early wildfire season. Officials urge safe burning ...

Five miles from the finish line of an 1,815-kilometre, two-week-long trek over unforgiving terrain where temperatures at ...

A Farmington Hills native finished the highest of any rookie in the Iditarod, a world-famous sled dog race through the ...

Dogs and mushers will go for one last ride in the Kobuk 440, the mushing season-finale in Alaska, when 13 teams take off in a mass start in Kotzebue Thursday. While the lack of snow and poor trail ...

Students, staff and faculty at St. Peter’s School returned from spring break this week to kick off one of the school’s most ...

Less than three weeks after finishing the Iditarod, Holmes is set to start the Kobuk 440, which touts itself as “the toughest ...

John Lyle, formerly of Fairbanks and now living in Hawaii, sent photos from the 1990s of snow oozing off his late friend Bill ...

For one week each winter, the small town of Joseph swells to host mushers and spectators for Oregon’s Iditarod qualifier sled ...

Beneath a starry night sky in Anvik, Alaska, a dazzling aurora borealis stretched over the horizon in ribbons of green and ...

Because he lagged far behind race leaders, officials pulled Quince Mountain from the Iditarod. He finished, unsupported and ...

Quince Mountain was withdrawn from the Iditarod under the race’s rule on competitiveness, but ended up driving a small team ...