This year is the 100th anniversary of the dog mushing relay that carried the diphtheria serum to Nome during a raging storm.
To many casual onlookers, the Iditarod is a weird curiosity. The famed sled-dog race, which begins this year on March 1, tasks mushers with trekking roughly 1,000 miles across the snowy Alaskan ...
Residents in nearly 20 villages came to their airstrips last weekend to greet Bering Air planes, hug the pilots and pray ...