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 ...

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

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 ...

Brothers Greg and Ricky Taylor have spent the last five months preparing for the 2025 "Open" World Championship Sled Dog Race in Anchorage, Alaska, where Greg finished in third place on Sunday, ...

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 ...

For Mark and Julie Owczarzack of Norway, the road to international acclaim in sled dog racing did not, as you might expect, begin with dreams of thousand-mile expeditions across the Alaskan wilderness ...

Alaska’s biggest sled dog race disqualified a former champion after he was accused of assaulting multiple women. Brent Sass, 44, who won the Iditarod Trial Sled Dog Race in 2022, was disqualified by ...

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.

Each February, mushers head to the Upper Peninsula to take on the UP200, a nearly 240-mile dog sled race that takes teams from Marquette to Grand Marais and back. The challenging, isolated course ...

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 ...