A celebration of life for musher Mary Shields will take place from 2-5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, at the Ken Kunkle Community Hall in Goldstream Valley. Friends of the noted musher are hosting the ...

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 ...

All eyes are on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race this week — and it seems the whole world has gone to the dogs. The leaders in the thousand-mile race already have reached the Yukon River on their way ...

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 ...

Gunnar Kaasen and his dog Balto, the heroic dog-sled team leader, sit for a portrait in the early 1920s. They were part of a group of mushers and sled dogs that braved frigid conditions to bring ...