A late January blizzard had dumped up to 4 feet of snow in some parts of the Northeast. In Alaska, a diphtheria outbreak threatened the remote town of Nome. The ...

Former "Life Below Zero" star Jessie Holmes won the longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race on Friday in Alaska.

Mansfield native and Iditarod musher Matthew Failor was just 71 miles away from the burled arch finish line in Nome.

Although some of the details of the incident are sketchy, the U.S. government believed the account of pilot Tony Schultz.

Veteran mushers expressed varying takeaways about the rookie makeup of the race. Willow’s Matthew Failor, who has compiled a ...

After over a week of cold temperatures, physical and mental tests and back-and-forth competition, the winner of the 2025 ...

Jessie Holmes and his dog team race into Nome ... trail in history, at an estimated 1,128 miles. The route is normally closer to a thousand miles, but scarce snow in Southcentral Alaska forced ...

“The whole story is about saving the children of Nome, and so for me a big part of this is getting the kids excited about it and bringing some of that history full circle,” Richards sai ...

Balto, the Alaskan Husky who would become famous for running the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome in 1925, would be ...