Tired Iditarod dogs could be seen to look ‘exhausted’ Yet again, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has a public relations problem because people have noticed the esoteric little race across the […]
Rest matters
Nature rules
Alaskans who’ve watched the disintegration of a nylon tent pitched too long under an intense, sub-Arctic sun or witnessed a plastic cargo toboggan for their snowmachine or a dogsled destroyed by […]
Goodbye Bud
Cancer claims one of biggest characters in first Iditarod race
Safe for now
The old home of legendary Alaska musher Leonhard Seppala of Nome is on the move. Nome city fathers who’d once ordered the building bulldozed to keep it from being used by the […]
Iditarod meltdown
The most tumultuous year in the roller-coasting, 45-year history of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is stumbling toward the March 3 start of Alaska’s biggest sporting event with no end to […]
Is harder safer?
An Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race that moved north of the Alaska Range for a Fairbanks restart this year because of bad trail was clearly kinder to mushers, but with three dogs […]
Iditarod dog death 4
Updated: Mitch Seavey expected in Nome before 4 p.m. Bad news just kept coming for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday even as it prepared to crown another champion. As […]
Sled Dogs = Blackfish
Sea World Entertainment, the mother company for the popular marine parks of the same name across the southern tier of the United State, this week announced the layoff of more than 320 […]
Musher murdered
A Scottish dog musher with ties to Alaska and the global mushing scene has died in a bizarre murder in Finland. The BBC is reporting that 26-year-old Rebecca Johnson, who went […]
Director strikes back
The director of the controversial though yet-to-be seen film “Sled Dogs” is pushing back at accusations she misled the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race into helping her film crew follow a rookie […]
