An Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race that moved north of the Alaska Range for a Fairbanks restart this year because of bad trail was clearly kinder to mushers, but with three dogs […]
Iditarod struggles
On a faster, easier race course in what constitutes mild weather by Alaska standards, yet another dog has died in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The latest death brings to five […]
Iditarod dog death 4
Updated: Mitch Seavey expected in Nome before 4 p.m. Bad news just kept coming for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday even as it prepared to crown another champion. As […]
Alaska invasion
The tiny town of Skagway at the northern end of the Alaska Panhandle remains ground zero for 49th state tourism, according to the latest data out from the National Park Service. Close […]
Odd dog death
0 Update: This story was updated with new informtion from Iditarod on March 14, 2017. The organization now says three dogs, including the dead one, suffered heatstroke on a direct flight from […]
The tough guy
For more than 34 days and 1,800 miles from the end of January into March, Jeff Oatley pushed and rode his fat bike ever west and north on the route of the […]
A hard road
A long-running dispute over access to a remote lake at the head of a popular salmon stream 25-miles off the Richardson Highway in a remote corner of eastern Alaska has tangled confirmation […]
Saving Kenai salmon
With Alaska’s early run of Kenai River king salmon on life support, the interests groups whose livelihoods and passions depend on the fish this week came to an agreement on a plan […]
Ever-changing I-rod
Part II of a series Who was first to put a coat on a short-haired dog in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race appears unclear. If you know, feel free […]
A different Iditarod
Part 1 of a series Thirty-four years ago, I first put journalistic boots on the ground to cover the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. It was not the race that […]
