Musher Ken Chezik and his team race along the Alaska Sled Dog Racing Association in Anchorage, with his lead dogs Beech and Fog. CREDIT: Britt Coon. According to Huson, sled dogs generally have an ...

Poland Spring Resort celebrates the Seppala Siberian Sleddog’s official designation as the official state dog of Maine. The ...

and the training that we do for them is always working towards building their confidence so that they hopefully can become one of those great lead dogs that we have." Denail's first sled dogs ...

Sled dog races don’t have lucrative jackpots ... who was seemingly headed for victory as late as Monday. He had a five-hour lead until his dog team stopped running. Petit said one dog ...

The Ray, Minnesota, musher and her eight-dog team crossed the finish ... greets his wife’s lead dogs at the finish of the Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon. Altemus, who left the final checkpoint ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — 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 ...

and I wanted to get my own dog team. So yeah, they got me a dog sled for Christmas. I started with four of her old lead dogs.” Blake’s mushing experience started later in life, but he learned ...

Born in 1913, the Siberian husky was small, weighing less than 50 pounds, but he was strong and determined, with an uncanny ability to lead a sled-dog team in harsh conditions. According to ...

“When a lead dog of a sled team grows old, the Eskimos shoot him,” an Alaskan had warned grimly. And though he still begins his day at 6 a.m. with 30 minutes of calisthenics and an icy ...

February 15 to show kids and parents what it takes to run a dog sled team. Northern Light co-host Monica Sandreczki recently caught up with Matthew Jobson, owner, operator and "chief pooper ...

Impossible’ took the cast to Norway — where they experienced “polar-bear-related shutdowns,” says director Christopher ...