Husky News

The Pet Parent’s Network (PPN) today announced the launch of HealthGUARD(R) dog vitamins, the only
two-step nutritional supplement system currently available for dogs. Read the rest of this entry »

Dog team in training tangles with musk ox on the move Read the rest of this entry »

A miracle dog lives in Anchorage. Her name is Halo. She hasn’t caught any criminals or won a sled dog race but a 4-year-old Oceanview boy named Leo really likes her. Read the rest of this entry »

PEARSON — The second annual dirty dog dryland derby took place this weekend in Pearson. Read the rest of this entry »

When most people hear the phrase dog sledding they think of dogs, sleds and snow. Read the rest of this entry »

A 1,000-mile race across the frozen wastes of Alaska with just a husky for transport? Bring it on, says Nicholas Roe. Read the rest of this entry »

Polar Explorer Will Steger is taking his message about global warming solutions on the road. Mike Simonson reports from Superior. Read the rest of this entry »

LAKE PLACID — This weekend, Lake Placid will be host to a different breed of athlete when the first-ever Run Dawg Run Festival comes to town. Read the rest of this entry »

Eleven mushers have signed up so far for the oldest sled dog race in Alaska, the All Alaska Sweepstakes first contested a century ago. Read the rest of this entry »

SLED dog racing arrived at the Ford Estate last weekend and it’s successful debut in the area could see it return in the near future. Read the rest of this entry »

A pack of wolves killed about a half-dozen sled dogs from three teams in Marshall on Wednesday night before residents of the Yukon River village chased them out of town, according to village officials and Alaska State Troopers. Read the rest of this entry »

When animal shelters started going overseas to fill their emptying kennels, some worried the imported strays would bring foreign diseases and even rabies into the USA. Read the rest of this entry »

Kiruna, Sweden/Hunderfossen, Norway – In Lapland the winters are long and cold, and if there is anything in abundance, then snow and ice are it. Read the rest of this entry »

Lance Mackey accomplished something that many people thought was impossible when he won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and the Yukon Quest in the same year. But he said the main thing is just for him and his dogs to have fun. Read the rest of this entry »

A team of 15 husky dogs from Eastbourne have started their training for a 200 mile race across the Italian Alps. Read the rest of this entry »

“30 Days of Night” takes a clever idea and beats it into a bloody pulp. Allow yourself even one moment of logical thinking and this movie makes no sense. It is reduced to being nothing more than a series of humans being killed by vampires and vice versa. Read the rest of this entry »

DISKO BAY, Greenland — It’s well past midnight, but the sun is still gleaming just behind jagged peaks, washing the sky with a rosy shimmer. A waterfall gushes from a rocky cleft beneath a glacier. Light glints off the ice floes scattered on the calm water before us. Read the rest of this entry »

Laurie McLaren, her husband Lyle and their two oldest children will be journeying north soon to see polar bears along with many other points of interest. Read the rest of this entry »

Three awards may have recently put us over the tipping point on the debate about global warming. The tipping point is that moment when a feather’s weight is added to one side of a balanced object and the centerpiece falls, suddenly crashing to bits. Read the rest of this entry »

HEMET, Calif. Authorities are asking for help finding the driver of a pickup truck seen deliberately running into and killing two pet dogs over the weekend in Hemet. Read the rest of this entry »