Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race sees the top two mushers from Norway. The dog teams are heading toward the finish line. The winner is expected early next week.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — It was a record setting win Tuesday for Mitch Seavey in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The 57-year-old Alaska musher became the oldest ever to win the world's most famous sled dog race, beating the record he set with his win four years ago...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A third dog associated with the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has died. Race officials report a 3-year-old male named Groovey has died after being hit by a car in Anchorage. The dog had been dropped from the team of Kotzebue musher John Baker and returned to Anchorage...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Former champion Mitch Seavey reached the Yukon River city of Galena and leads the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The Seward, Alaska, musher is a two-time champion and the father of current champ Dallas Seavey...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Add sleep to the already long list of hazards in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. A video posted on the official race website shows a dog team that arrived at a checkpoint without a musher. As the video scanned the dogs' faces, one man could be heard saying, "Where's Linwood...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A 27-year-old man has been sentenced after pleading guilty to charges connected with a snowmobile attack on two mushers competing in Alaska's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in March. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports Arnold Demoski of Nulato was sentenced Monday to six months, most of which has already been served...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Organizers of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race say four-time champion and cancer survivor Lance Mackey has dropped out of next year's nearly 1,000-mile race because of health reasons. Race marshal Mark Nordman confirmed the withdrawal to The Associated Press on Monday after the Iditarod Trail Committee announced it on its Facebook page...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska authorities are investigating after a female competitor in this year's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race said two men groped her as her team passed by. Alaska State Trooper James Lester says he's investigating the March 13 incident as harassment for now...

THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. (AP) — Fifty-three sled dogs and four mushers who competed in the Iditarod in Alaska are now camping on Nisqually tribal land in Washington state. The News Tribune reports Norwegian musher Tore Albrigtson said their original plan to fly home from Anchorage after the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race fell apart when a cargo plane wasn't available...

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race officials say Iditarod winner Dallas Seavey set a record with his finish in 8 days, 11 hours, 20 minutes, 16 seconds. Seavey arrived in Nome at 2:20 a.m. on Tuesday, winning his third straight Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and his fourth in the last five years...