Dog deaths revive calls for end to Iditarod, the endurance race with deep roots in Alaska tradition

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — For the past five years, Alaska’s annual Iditarod sled dog race has gone off mostly free of controversy, as teams of dogs and their mushers braved the elements in the 1,000-mile (1,609-kilometer) test of endurance across the frozen wilderness. This year...

Seavey now has the most Iditarod wins, but Alaska's historic race is marred by 3 sled dog deaths

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska's annual Iditarod dog sled race ended with a victory for the ages: One of the biggest names in the sport came from behind after a moose attack to win the grueling, dayslong contest for an unprecedented sixth time. But Dallas Seavey's record-setting...

Dallas Seavey wins 6th Iditarod championship, most ever in the world’s most famous sled dog race

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Dallas Seavey's path to an Iditarod championship was like none he's faced before, including killing a moose and overcoming a time penalty that had him in 10th place at one point to win a record-breaking sixth championship in the world’s most famous sled dog race. ...

Dallas Seavey wins 6th Iditarod championship, most ever in the world’s most famous sled dog race

2 dogs die during 1,000-mile Iditarod, prompting call from PETA to end the race across Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two dogs died over the weekend during Alaska’s annual Iditarod sled dog race, marking the first deaths during the race in five years and renewing calls to end the 1,000-mile (1,609-kilometer) competition that sees mushers and their canine teams traverse mountain ranges,...

Iditarod issues time penalty to Seavey for not properly gutting moose that he killed on the trail

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Iditarod officials on Wednesday imposed a two-hour time penalty on musher Dallas Seavey for not properly gutting the moose he killed during the race earlier this week. Race marshal Warren Palfrey convened a three-person panel of race officials to...

5-time Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey kills and guts a moose that got entangled with his dog team

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A veteran musher had to kill a moose after it injured his dog shortly after the start of this year’s Iditarod, race officials said Monday. Dallas Seavey informed the officials with the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race early Monday morning that he was forced...

Alaska's Iditarod dogs get neon visibility harnesses after 5 were fatally hit while training

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Iditarod, the annual sled dog race celebrating Alaska's official state sport, got underway Saturday with a new focus on safety after five dogs died and eight were injured in collisions with snowmobiles while training on shared, multi-use trails. For...

Musher who was disqualified, then reinstated, now withdraws from the Iditarod race across Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A musher who was disqualified from the world’s most famous sled dog race only to be reinstated days later has now officially withdrawn from this year’s Iditarod. Eddie Burke Jr. scratched from the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, officials said in a...

Iditarod's reigning rookie of the year disqualified from 2024 race for violating conduct standard

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The governing body of the world’s most famous sled dog race has disqualified the 2023 Iditarod rookie of the year from this year’s contest by citing a rule but not the specific infraction of it. After an emergency meeting Monday, the Iditarod Trail...