Iditarod

• Grandson of race co-founder wins Iditarod sled dog race

  The 1,609-km race started on March 5 in Willow for 33 mushers, who travelled over two mountain ranges, the frozen Yukon River and on the Bering Sea ice.

  U.S. News

  Mar 14, 2023
  
• Defending champion leaves Iditarod race over health concerns

  This year’s race featured 33 mushers, the smallest field ever to start a race, one short of the first race run in 1973.

  U.S. News

  Mar 11, 2023
  
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• Sled dogs test positive for performance enhancing drug during Iditarod race

  For the first time in the history of the world's most famous sled dog race, several of the high-performance animals have tested positive for a prohibited drug. But race officials have refused to name the musher involved.

  Sports

  Oct 18, 2017
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• Dallas Seavey wins 4th Iditarod crown, sets course record

  Dallas Seavey won his third straight Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race early Tuesday morning.

  Sports

  Mar 15, 2016
• Arrest after dog killed when snowmobile drives into dog sleds in Iditarod

  A 26-year-old man has been taken into custody on suspicion of crashing his snowmobile into two Iditarod mushers early Saturday morning.

  World

  Mar 12, 2016
• Warm weather forces Iditarod farther north

  Much of the start of the world's most famous sled dog race is covered in barren gravel, forcing Iditarod organizers to move the start further north where there is snow and ice.

  World

  Mar 6, 2015
• Dallas Seavey wins his 2nd Iditarod dog race

  Dallas Seavey ran a blistering pace to rally from third place and win his second Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race early Tuesday in a record-breaking finish.

  Canada

  Mar 11, 2014
• Iditarod sled dog race kicks off this weekend

  The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race across Alaska kicks off this weekend as usual, after warm winter weather nearly prompted officials to move the start hundreds of kilometres north to Fairbanks for the first time in a decade.

  Sports

  Feb 28, 2014