2008 Iditarod 36

Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race veteran Lynda Plettner runs a 20-acre facility to house developmentally disabled Alaskans at Big Lake.

Iditarod racer's goal shifts to home

An Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race veteran who spent years tempering herself and her huskies for the long, hard trail to Nome has turned her energies to a new challenge: providing a healthy alternative home for adults with developmental disabilities.

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2008 IDITAROD 36

Rush is on to mush in Iditarod

Mushers will start signing up for the 2009 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race this morning -- and they better have a fat checking account.
2008 IDITAROD 36

Iditarod musher King charged with illegal moose kill

Four-time Iditarod champ Jeff King has been charged in federal court with illegally killing a moose in Denali National Park and Preserve.
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Iditarod 36 dogs

Celebrating the Iditarod athletes in front of the sled.
2008 IDITAROD 36

Mackey proves Iditarod/Quest wins no fluke

Sled-dog racing pundits said it couldn't be done: Winning both the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest and the 1,100-mile Iditarod in one year, and both in little more than a month. But at 2:46 a.m. today, Lance Mackey and his dogs passed beneath the burled arch in Nome to do it again. Jeff King arrived in second...