An Alaska endurance competition so hard that even Iditarod Trail dog mushers think the entrants a little nuts has been crowned the hardest race in the world by the country’s biggest […]
The few, the strong
New AK record
An Alaska state record largemouth bass was pulled from Anchorage’s Sand Lake over the Labor Day weekend. It measured about seven and a half inches and was a first-ever catch in the […]
Mushers #metoo
This story was updated on April 27, 2018 FAIRBANKS – Banned Yukon Quest musher Hugh Neff – seeming to channel the spirit of self-exiled Iditarod musher Dallas Seavey – says he is […]
Idit-a-fable
Commentary This story has been updated The Washington Post used to a be a newspaper you could respect, or at least I could. My journalism career began in the Watergate era when […]
Two saved
This story has been updated When a trio of Iditarod Trail fat-tire cyclists fighting their way through a Seward Peninsula ground blizzard in the dark of the early moring Friday stumbled upon […]
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 […]
Last Great Mess II
Almost 11 months after the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race received a letter reporting on doping in the 2017 version of the 1,000-mile run to Nome, race organisers finally released the unabridged document […]
Iditarod explodes
This story has been updated and continues to develop Charges of blackmail, an Alaska media cover-up gone bust and previously unreported doping ripped into the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday […]
Everywhere dope
Doping news was flooding the international world of sports on Monday as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race disappeared into the wild beauty of the Alaska Range and gained some distance […]
Seavey fire
First it was the heartache of a doped dog team in Nome, and now it’s a fire burning down the workshop of four-time Iditarod champ Dallas Seavey, formerly from Willow now from […]
