The nicest guy ever to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race died Thursday at his home in Ruby on the south bank of the Yukon River in wild Central Alaska. Emmitt […]
The finest
Dopey dogs
Alaska’s biggest sporting events have yet to hit the trail and already there is a doping controversy. This time it involves the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race from Fairbanks to […]
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 […]
Iditarod crashes
UPDATE: This story was updated from the first version to include Nic Petit’s decision to drop out of the race. Bad judgment is among the most normal of human behaviors, and Iditarod […]
Man beats dog
Girdwood musher Nicolas Petit on Tuesday led the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race into the tiny, Kuskokwim River community of McGrath more than two hours ahead of the pace set in […]
Common denominator
The north’s fastest Iditarod Trail race – the 2000-mile Iron Dog – was parked in the remote city of Nome on Wednesday celebrating its arrival at the outpost on the […]
Bubbling anger
In this the Age of Rage, it comes as no surprise that some in Alaska are furious that the animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is protesting the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Iditarod loses another
One of the “Flying Anderson” brothers from the days when every Iditarod dog musher of note bore a nickname has reached the end of the trail. Allan “Eep” Anderson of McGrath […]
