Sleep deprivation study raises questions about whether Alaska’s long Iditarod dog race with little sleep increases Alzheimer’s risk for mushers.
Cognitive gamble
Dog in cuffs
Alaska’s Last Great Race is still a month and a half away, but the Idit-a-craziness has already begun. Detroit Police had the mother-of-all-dog protesters in pawcuffs this week at the North […]
Warm-aska
Here we go again Alaska, if weather guru Judah Cohen of Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) has it right. Get out the rain gear and the cleats for those walkways and roads […]
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 […]
End of an era
The sizzle and fizzle of Stan Hooley’s Iditarod legacy
A troubled trail
After more than a year of turmoil for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the long-time executive director is out. In a carefully worded, six-paragraph statement on Thursday, Mike Mills, the president […]
Who done it?
News analysis Only time will tell the consequences of the decision by the new Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race board of directors to reverse course on the old Board and clear […]
Iditarod gives in
This is a developing story After a year of battling with four-time Iditarod champ Dallas Seavey, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has announced it has changed its mind about who doped […]
Shrinking Idit-a-races
After a year of doping controversy and animals rights protests, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race heads into 2019 with the smallest field in 22 years foretelling what could be a […]
Historic firsts
This just in: Commercial salmon drift gillnetters will Thursday be allowed to fish in the Kenai River, an Alaska first. But wait, there’s more. It has just been discovered that the Nome […]
