Iditarod Trail Committee Inc.

The best dog team anyone ever hitched to a sled was the one Susan Butcher stood behind in the 1985 Iditarod, the 1,100-mile race across Alaska from Anchorage to Nome. So says Butcher, who knows a bit about sled dogs....

It wasn't a fit night out for man or beast when Libby Riddles, 28, of Teller, Alaska, and her 13 dogs made their way across the sea ice of Norton Sound on the 15th day of the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race...

TIM OSMARCLAM GULCH, ALASKATim, 15, drove his team of 10 sled dogs to victory in the fifth Junior Iditarod race, covering the 130-mile run from Settlers Bay to Yentna Station Lodge and back in 12 hours, 31 minutes,...