The first and to date only woman to win the 1,000-mile, Yukon-Quest International Sled Dog Race, arguably Alaska’s toughest ultramarathon, and a three-time runner-up in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Aliy […]
State of misogyn
No honor
Update: This story was updated to include Joar Leifseth Ulsom’s statement that he didn’t dope his dogs or any others. Just when you think things can’t get much worse for the Iditarod […]
Home safe
Sometimes it is good to find a story with a happy ending. This is one such story. More than two weeks after disappearing into the urban jungle of Alaska’s largest city, […]
Save this dog
Barbara Swenson was in tears Tuesday over an elderly dog gone lost. His name was Scruggs, and he was no ordinary dog. He had come to live with Swenson in Anchorage after […]
Iditarod’s problem?
So now it is official. Not one, but two female mushers in the Iditarod Trial Sled Dog Race were threatened or grabbed by men this year as they traveled along a wild […]
A third Iditarod assault
As alleged Iditarod assailant Arnold Demoski from Nulato was settling into a cell at the Fairbanks Correctional Institute on the evening of March 13, an attack on at least one more Iditarod […]
Iditarod’s village problems
Part II of a two-part series: Part I examined the circumstances behind collisions involving dog-loving Nulato snowmachiner rider Arnold Demoski and two Iditarod dog teams — incidents that left two mushers shaken, […]
A difficult trail shared by all
Part 1 of a 2 part series When snowmachine driver Arnold Demoski says the collision that killed one dog and seriously injured others in the team of Iditarod musher Jeff King in […]
Iditarod dog-death update
^ Arnold Demoski. Photo via Facebook. The Nulato, Alaska snowmachine driver alleged to have terrorized two mushers in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and killed a dog by running it over […]
Iditarod catastrophe
One dog is dead and others are injured as the result of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race’s worst nightmare come true.
