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Dallas Seavey sets out from the checkpoint in Iditarod on Thursday afternoon, March 11, 2021, during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. (Zachariah Hughes/Anchorage Daily News via AP, Pool)
Last musher brings dogs over Alaska's Iditarod finish line

Mar. 18, 2021 02:05 PM EDT

Richie Diehl mushes up the first part of the Happy River Steps on Sunday, March 14, 2021 during the Iditarod, in Alaska. The steps are normally a tricky downhill part of the race, but this year mushers are also doing it in reverse. (Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News via AP, Pool)
Dallas Seavey wins Iditarod, matches most wins by a musher

By Mark Thiessen Mar. 15, 2021 01:13 PM EDT

Dallas Seavey wins a pandemic-shortened Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and matches the most wins by a musher

Mar. 15, 2021 09:05 AM EDT
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Dallas Seavey wins a pandemic-shortened Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and matches the most wins by a musher. ...

Today in History

By The Associated Press Mar. 15, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
Today in History Today is Monday, March 15, the 74th day of 2021. There are 291 days left in the year. Today’s...

Ryan Redington, right, with his team in harness, stops near a team bedded down near the trail as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race headed toward the Rohn checkpoint Saturday, March 13, 2021. (Zachariah Hughes/Anchorage Daily News via AP, Pool)
Dallas Seavey on the cusp of 5th title with Iditarod lead

By Mark Thiessen Mar. 14, 2021 06:03 PM EDT

Past Iditarod champions Joar Ulsom, right, and Pete Kaiser pose for a photo with Richie Diehl, left, in the Ophir, Alaska, during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Friday, March 12, 2021. The three are close friends and have been traveling close together for sections of the race. (Zachariah Hughes/Anchorage Daily News via AP, Pool)
Dog illness prompts former Iditarod champion to scratch

By Mark Thiessen Mar. 13, 2021 05:08 PM EST

FILE - In this March 14, 2014, file photo, Howard Farley, who helped organize Nome as the end of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ahead of the first running in 1973, is seen at the Carrie M. McLain Memorial Museum in Nome, Alaska. The world's most famous sled dog race starts Sunday, March 7, 2021, without its defending champion in a contest that will be as much dominated by unknowns and changes because of the pandemic as mushers are by the Alaska terrain. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)
Pandemic forces route change, other precautions for Iditarod

By Mark Thiessen Mar. 06, 2021 11:02 AM EST

Start location changed for scaled-back Iditarod

Jan. 05, 2021 09:12 PM EST
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Officials with the scaled-back Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday announced another change for the 2021 competition. ...

FILE - In this March 18, 2020 file photo, Thomas Waerner, of Norway, celebrates his win in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Nome, Alaska. The world's most famous sled dog race will go forward in 2021 officials are preparing for every potential contingency now for what the coronavirus and the world might look like in March when the Iditarod starts. It's not the mushers that worry Iditarod CEO Rob Urbach; they're used to social distancing along the 1,000 mile trail. The headaches start with what to do with hundreds of volunteers needed to run the race, some scattered in villages along the trail between Anchorage and Nome, to protect them and the village populations. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP, File)
Virus restrictions lead Norwegian champ to drop Iditarod

By Mark Thiessen Nov. 23, 2020 08:17 PM EST

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