Husky News

The Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race will have a minimum purse of $150,000 in 2010, the Alaska and Yukon boards of directors announced Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »

Appetite and Attitude: A Conversation with Lance Mackey is perhaps as revealing about the past that brought him to this point as what drives him today. Mackey’s repeated refrain that his father Dick Mackey, who won the closest finish of the Iditarod ever, taking a win over Rick Swenson by one second, was viewed as something of a laughing stock amongst those involved in the sport when he started made me wonder given Mackey’s claims of not getting the respect he deserves. Read the rest of this entry »

Organizers of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race have moved their 2010 start time up a week, a change that could tempt more mushers to try both the Quest and the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Read the rest of this entry »

Lance Mackey, one of Alaska’s biggest mushing icons, is planning to withdraw from next month’s Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, an event he’s won a record four straight years. Read the rest of this entry »

The sleek, 6-year-old Alaskan Husky gladly lifted her paws Tuesday as Justin Fink, of Gladwin, fitted her feet with protective coverings. 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 »

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 »

The race for third place in this year’s Yukon Quest was close between Yukon musher Michelle Phillips and Alaskan David Dalton, with Dalton crossing the finish line 46 minutes ahead of Phillips in Whitehorse. Read the rest of this entry »

Defending Iditarod champion Lance Mackey won his fourth consecutive Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race on Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »

Not even a strong challenge from his next-door neighbor and a costly wrong turn could keep Lance Mackey out of the record books. Read the rest of this entry »

Defending champion departs final checkpoint 19 minutes ahead of steadfast Ken Anderson. Read the rest of this entry »

Not even a strong challenge from his next-door neighbor and a costly wrong turn could keep Lance Mackey out of the record books. Read the rest of this entry »

Yukon Quest winner Lance Mackey, right, congratulates Ken Anderson for his second place finish early Wednesday morning, Feb. 20, 2008, in Whitehorse, Yukon. Read the rest of this entry »

Two Fairbanks-area mushers are neck-and-neck heading into the final stretch of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race. Read the rest of this entry »

Mackey, Anderson teams sprint toward finish of 1,600 kilometre dog sled race. Read the rest of this entry »

Next-door neighbors Lance Mackey and Ken Anderson of Fairbanks will pull out of the final checkpoint at Braeburn early this afternoon, beginning their final push to the finish line of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race 100 miles away. Read the rest of this entry »

Ken Anderson had already been mushing for 10 1/2 hours as he approached the McCabe Creek dog drop with Lance Mackey out of sight but hot on his tail. Read the rest of this entry »