Iditarod musher Pete Kaiser arrives at the Unalakleet checkpoint on March 13, 2022. This year, mushers will race out of Fairbanks and rejoin the traditional route in Unalakleet. (Jeff Chen/Alaska ...

Mar. 1—Sled dogs leapt in place, yelping and tugging forward. Mushers excitedly prepared their teams, laying out the gangline and chatting with fans, friends and family members. Throngs of spectators ...

Thirty-three mushers and hundreds of sled dogs paraded through Anchorage on Saturday for the ceremonial start of the 2025 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. In temperatures hovering around 30 degrees, the ...

As 2024 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race mushers make their way through the first stage of the race, relive some of our top highlights from the race’s opening weekend in Anchorage and Willow.

Dane Baker (21), of Royal Oak, Michigan, mushes through downtown during the Ceremonial Start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Anchorage, Alaska., Saturday, March 1, 2025. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A lack of snow along a dangerous stretch of trail has led organizers of the world’s most famous sled dog race to move the start of the Iditarod farther north. The Iditarod ...

Feb. 25—The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is making another dramatic change to its annual program due to the poor snow conditions in Southcentral Alaska. The organization said Tuesday morning that it ...

A legendary musher shot and killed a moose shortly after the start of the 2024 Iditarod after the moose injured one of his dogs, race officials said Monday. Dallas Seavey, a record-tying five-time ...

A team of sled dogs led by Mitch Seavey (32), of Seward, Alaska, mush through downtown during the Ceremonial Start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Anchorage, Alaska., Saturday, March 1, 2025.