The Iditarod Trail Committee (ITC) announced on December 9 that Dan Carter has been appointed as Race Marshal for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

This column is for fans and mushers of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. I’m writing not only as someone who has been involved with the Iditarod for 45 years, but as someone who deeply loves this race ...

Jul. 17—Even more than 50 years after her historic ride, Mary Shields was still inspiring the next generation of female mushers. Shields, the first woman to finish the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, ...

Keaton Loebrich's main goal in his first Iditarod was to finish the race. Mission accomplished, and then some. One of 16 mushers who were taking on Alaska's famous sled dog race for the first time, ...

A Farmington Hills native finished the highest of any rookie in the Iditarod, a world-famous sled dog race through the Alaskan wilderness. “It was amazing,” said Samantha LaLonde, 29, placing 15th out ...

Emily Ford, the 34-year-old native of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, who now calls Duluth home, spent 13 days mushing her dogs along the Yukon River in Alaska in this year's Iditarod race. Ford says it was ...

Add a historic Iditarod across Alaska to Emily Ford’s résumé of extreme winter feats. Under bright sunshine, the rookie musher from Duluth and her team of 10 Alaskan huskies crossed the finish line of ...

After spending nearly two weeks traversing more than 1,100 miles of the Alaska wilderness, Duluth’s Emily Ford finished her first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Sunday. Ford and her team passed under ...