Can an ever smaller Iditarod survive? Fifteen years ago, I wrote a book titled “Graveyard of Dreams: Dashed Hopes and Shattered Aspirations Along Alaska’s Iditarod Trail” that the Iditarod refused to sell […]
Shrinking or sinking?
Whose fault?
Musher blamed for dog death As part of accepting at least some responsibility for the death of a dog in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the Iditarod Trail Committee last […]
Dog down
Man killed in Anchorage crosswalk A dog strayed into Anchorage Midtown traffic early Tuesday and paid the price with its life. Fifty-three-year-old Evan Larson Jr. went to the dog and was hit […]
Iditarod hellstorm
Update: This story has been updated to report a second dog death, which Iditarod was late to report on Sunday, and a 2024 death rate now significantly worse than the 10-year […]
Good-bye Gold Loop
The “Gold Loop Trail” especially planned for the pandemic-plagued Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race of 2021 is no more thanks to another body blow from Mother Nature. Iditarod Race Marshall Mark Nordman […]
Iditarod ends
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ended in Nome on Monday with the smallest finishing field in 30 years, the second champion from rural Alaska in a decade when rural Alaska has […]
Dogged journalism
FAIRBANKS – I apparently did a bad thing on Friday. I went by the office of someone involved in a news story to ask questions face to face, something journalists used […]
Musher suspended
This story has been updated FAIRBANKS – The Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race has sanctioned former champion Hugh Neff, a hard driver and veteran of both that race […]
Iditarod dog dies
This story has been updated Kotzebue musher Katherine Keith pulled into Nome Thursday night to bring to a close a musher’s year from hell. First there was a dead dog near […]
