The Iditarod and the Yukon Quest may be the first races to come to mind when thinking about sled dog racing for many Alaskans, but the sport encompasses so many other distances and types of races as ...

This story was produced by KYUK Public Media and Northern Journal. Charlie Chingliak is a budding high-school basketball player in the Western Alaska Native village of Akiachak, and he looks the part ...

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Feb. 24—Growing up in a mushing family, Charlie Conner heard plenty of tales around the dinner table about the legends of sled dog racing in Alaska. Conner, who operates a multi-generational kennel in ...

Mike Bestgen has been racing sled dogs for over 25 years and, at age 66, he isn’t planning on stopping anytime soon. The St. Cloud native got his start in the sport helping his friend, Dave, during ...

Tabernash dog musher Kathy Burke has been racing locally for 20 years, but this October, she will face a next-level ...

ALTA, Wyo. – I'm not sure who's having more fun, musher Michael Tarver or his sled dogs as we charge on through the white wonderland. Everything is white. Massive trees rise in the background and the ...

MOULTONBOROUGH — Keith Bryar Jr. had a talent for sled-dog racing like no other in the Lakes Region, and a set of instincts that set him apart from most of his peers in New Hampshire and New England.

The stereotypical sled dog racing image is a solitary figure mushing dogs through harsh winter weather. It couldn't have been more different Friday in Frazee, as schoolchildren and other spectators ...

The granddaddy of all sled dog races kicks off in Fairbanks this coming weekend. What? Are they re-doing the Iditarod? No: it is the 69th running of the Open North American Sled Dog Race. This race is ...

Charlie Chingliak is a budding high school basketball player in the Western Alaska Native village of Akiachak, and he looks the part — sporting two stud earrings in each ear and a stylish hoodie ...

Local mushers compete in the 2025 Akiak Dash. This story was produced by KYUK and Northern Journal. Charlie Chingliak is a budding high school basketball player in the Western Alaska Native village of ...