Now, 100 years later ... as unsuited for the weather. There were no roads or trains that reached Nome. Instead, officials shipped the serum by rail to Nenana in interior Alaska, about 675 miles ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska ... run to Nome — dogs like Balto and Togo. This year is the 100th anniversary of the dog mushing relay that carried the diphtheria serum to Nome during a raging storm.

In this 1925 file photo, Gunnar Kaasen poses with his original dog team which he drove through a blinding blizzard to Nome, Alaska, to deliver diphtheria serum to save the town from being wiped ...

As a regular on the reality TV show “ Life Below Zero ” — which follows subsistence hunters in rural Alaska — Holmes has made ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska Gold Rush town of ... "strangling angel" for the way it suffocated children. Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Gold Rush town ... angel” for the way it suffocated children. Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who ...