The map above shows the loop mushers are taking ... found adventure running dogs on a remote trap line on the Yukon River, which led to sled dog racing. A subsistence resident of Nenana, Alaska, ...

ON THE IDITAROD TRAIL, Alaska — Matthew Failor harnessed his ... who start the race at staggered intervals. Failor arrived in Nenana on Monday at 5:23 p.m., covering the 52-mile frozen river stretch ...

Most of the 11 teams who competed in the first Burbot Fishing Derby in Nenana in January returned for the sequel and better ...

Just a little more than two weeks are left to buy tickets for the greatest guessing game in Alaska ... Nenana Ice Classic. The traditional black-and-white tripod is sitting on the Tanana River ...

Nenana was about 52 river miles from the starting line in Fairbanks. As Seward musher Travis Beals parked his team, an Alaska Railroad horn echoed off nearby rock walls as it crossed the long ...

Mount Spurr lies about 80 miles west of Anchorage, which is Alaska's most populous city, making it one of the state's most closely watched volcanoes. It last erupted in 1992, spreading ash over ...

Writer Lale Arikoglu follows the historic 1,000 mile sled dog race to find out why it still captures so many imaginations.

Matt Hall, who was born in Eagle, a tiny community on the Yukon River in eastern Alaska and began mushing ... Holmes now lives in Nenana, where he works as a carpenter and lives a subsistence ...

He arrived in Alaska in 2004 and found adventure running dogs on a remote location of the Yukon River. He lived for many years in the town of Nenana and made friends with elders who had decades of ...

The Richardson Highway speed limit drops to 45 mph, NASA's "AWESOME" mission lights up Fairbanks, the Nenana Ice Classic ...

He was also the first to reach Grayling the second time – on the return up the Yukon River – and won the Alaska Air Transit ... dog teams will check in at Nenana, Manley, Tanana, Ruby, Galena ...

The US Department of Interior has announced its plan this week to pursue the reopening of 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to leasing and energy project development as well as mining.