One of those long-hidden stories known to many familiar with the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race went public Thursday when it was revealed to the world that four-time champ Lance Mackey from […]
Down and out
Mean mother
With more dog mushers needing rescue on Friday and some competitors in the muscle-powered Iditarod Trail Invitational (ITI) pulled off the route, 2020 will go down as the year Mother Nature bit […]
Farmers’ success
Today in the global fishing business: The two biggest, young stars in Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race hookup with a Norwegian sponsor which built its business on producing food for fish […]
The few, the strong
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 […]
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 […]
