Husky News

Overnight dog runs a must in cold weather Read the rest of this entry »

John Michael Munro knew by the age of 7 that he wanted to race dogs when he got his first Siberian husky. Read the rest of this entry »

Sled-dog racing pundits said it couldn’t be done. Read the rest of this entry »

With his dirty, red, arctic snowsuit stripped off and packed away in his sled, defending Iditarod champion Lance Mackey and his team off 11 Alaska huskies set off to run for Nome at 4:53 p.m. Read the rest of this entry »

After nearly 1,000 miles of racing, eight minutes separated the dog teams of defending Iditarod champion Lance Mackey and four-time victor Jeff King. Read the rest of this entry »

The morning fog lifted just hours before four-time Iditarod champion Jeff King rolled into this Bering Sea village to claim the lead for the first time in The Last Great Race. Read the rest of this entry »

Defending champion Lance Mackey pulled out of Nulato at 2:49 this afternoon, still leading the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Read the rest of this entry »

Defending champion Lance Mackey pulled out of Ruby this afternoon to begin his run down the ice-covered Yukon River in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, hoping to put some distance between him and Jeff King’s team of 16 energetic dogs. Read the rest of this entry »

Is Jeff King the real leader of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race? Read the rest of this entry »

Former champion Mitch Seavey took the lead into the ghost town of Ophir today as warm, wet conditions blanketed the 36th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite temperatures nearly tropical for hard-working dogs, defending champion Lance Mackey bolted out of Nikolai late Tuesday afternoon to grab the lead in the 36th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Read the rest of this entry »

Cliff Roberson straggled into this tent checkpoint early Monday afternoon, exhausted and running 70th in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Read the rest of this entry »

Five former champions were chasing Norway’s Kjetil Backen through wet falling snow in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »

Lance Mackey set off Sunday on the competitive portion of the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, armed with a serious mission _ to repeat history by again winning two grueling back-to-back races. Read the rest of this entry »

Many mushers can tell a story of a time when their dogs saved them — sometimes on the trail, sometimes off. Read the rest of this entry »

Sled-dog bloodlines are meticulously bred to ensure the best possible genes pass on to future generations. The same can almost be said for the men and women who drive their dogs in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Read the rest of this entry »

The 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has begun with musher Cim Smyth of Big Lake leaving the restart in Willow. Read the rest of this entry »

Speedy Kjetil Backen, kennel partner of two-time champion Robert Sorlie, flew into the Finger Lake checkpoint before dawn on Monday to seize the early lead in the 36th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Backen, the third-place finisher in the 2004 Iditarod has been moving. Read the rest of this entry »

THE DOGS glided into town quietly. One minute everyone waited for them, the next minute they paced smoothly down Front Street and across the finish line. Read the rest of this entry »

For a solitary soul, Laura Daugereau sure can talk. Ask her an initial question, and she speaks for 11 ceaseless minutes, discussing the outdoors, home-schooling, Christianity, humidity, dyslexia and, of course, dogs. Oh, how she loves her dogs. That’s why we are having this conversation. Read the rest of this entry »