ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The rugged Iditarod started Monday, but a dearth of snow forced the iconic dog sled race to start further north and added a new route that allows mushers to bypass barren land ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from a ...

The annual dogsled race takes competitors 1,000 miles across Alaska. — -- Seventy-two mushers, ages 20 to 63, are racing across the Alaskan wilderness, more than 1,000 miles in total, to win the ...