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

I’m not sure who’s having more fun, musher Michael Tarver or his sled dogs as we charge on through the white wonderland.

Dog sledding is technically a competitive sport, but as an Idaho musher noted, for most, it's hardly a money-making business.

ILULISSAT, Greenland — When Stella Davidsen Olsen was 12 years old, her father presented her and her ... and working to train them to pull sleds across Greenland's snow and ice. Now, 14 years later, ...

They are all different types of huskies under 2 years old, including ... negative behaviors. Sled trips typically wrap up for the year in April and start again when snow moves in.

The Interior Alaska musher won his first Iditarod on his eighth try, arriving in Nome with his dog team early Friday.

A lack of snow ... the old Gold Rush town of Nome on the Bering Sea coast in about 10 days. This year the Iditarod will honor another famous mushing event, the 1925 Serum Run, in which sled ...

Holliston's William Roberts recently returned from a two-week stay in Park City, Utah, where he won the USA Luge Youth B ...

Last year, the John Beargrease sled dog marathon in Minnesota was postponed and ultimately canceled due to low levels of snow. The 400-mile ... Last year, some 1-year-old dogs were robbed of ...

(AP Photo/Amanda Loman) ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The rugged Iditarod started Monday, but a dearth of snow forced the iconic dog sled race to start ... expected in the old Gold Rush town of Nome ...