On the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, a novice learns to drive her own team on an adventure in the heart of winter.

Klaucke, of Medford, is one of at least 10 mushers from Maine planning to compete in the Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Races this weekend in Fort Kent. As of Thursday, 50 teams from as far away ...

Due to a serious lack of snow, Northwest sled dog races are facing cancellation, sending a rippling disappointment through the sled dog teams that look forward to these events each year.

The 54th running of the Iditarod sled dog race is set to begin Saturday afternoon under slightly warmer than ideal conditions ...

Four sled dog races concluded this weekend in Laurium, Copper Harbor and Eagle Harbor. On Friday evening, spectators lined 5th Street in downtown Calumet to watch the start of the CopperDog events for ...

After Saturday's ceremonial start in Anchorage, the race clock starts ticking for real with a restart Sunday in Willow, as ...

The Thunder Mountain Dog Sled team from Vermontville is one of two teams that offer rides on Mirror Lake in Lake Placid.

This winter’s dismal snowpack led to scheduling challenges for the the Rocky Mountain Sled Dog Club. Photo: Ziyi Xu, Rocky Mountain PBS ...

Balto’s genetic makeup shows a greater ability to process starches when compared to wolves and Greenland sled dogs.

The race is said to be “one of the toughest anywhere,” its founder said, but one challenge became too big of an issue to continue.

The CopperDog15 and new CopperDart will start and finish on Saturday in Copper Harbor. The CD15 is a single-stage, 16-mile loop race around Copper Harbor designed for teams of up to six dogs. The Dart ...

A Czechoslovakian wolfdog joined the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics cross-country ski course, echoing the 1932 Lake Placid sled dog trials.