Iditarod champion Thomas Waerner is finally back home in Norway, 11 weeks after winning the race
The musher and his dogs flew 20 hours in a 64-year-old DC-6 cargo plane that’s headed to a Norway aviation museum.
Good boys: Bark and K2 share Golden Harness Award as top dogs in the 2020 Iditarod
The Iditarod runs in Bark’s blood, according to musher Thomas Waerner, who said his co-lead dog was conceived during the 2014 race in the checkpoint of Ruby.
More than 2 months after Waerner won the Iditarod, he’s still in Alaska waiting to return to Norway
A historic DC-6, parked in Fairbanks and bound for an aviation museum in Norway, will be his ticket home if all goes as planned.
Reimbursement program will provide some Iditarod mushers with $500 for veterinary expenses
The funds will go to the first 50 mushers who sign up for the 2021 race and first 50 who sign up for the 2022 race.
After racing 1,000 miles to Nome, Iditarod musher Jessie Royer faced an even longer trip back to Montana
The Iditarod veteran was initially turned back at the Canada border in late March because of quarantine restrictions.
Disqualified: Lance Mackey tested positive for meth in 2020 Iditarod, says he’ll enter treatment
The Iditarod has vacated his 21st-place finish in this year’s race, and the four-time champion will return his prize money.
Aaron Burmeister honored with Iditarod award inspired by Herbie Nayokpuk
Burmeister grew up running dogs in the Norton Sound region, just like Nayokpuk.
Shaktoolik, Seaveys put Iditarod back in the news
Shaktoolik is honored as the top checkpoint in the 2020 race, and Mitch Seavey says he’ll skip the 2021 race but his son, four-time champ Dallas, is returning after a four-year break.
By moving up 31 places in the standings, Tim Pappas wins Iditarod award for most improved musher
The Big Lake musher placed 20th in this year’s race.
Iditarod TV special airs Friday, and Alaskans can watch on satellite or streaming services
CBS Sports Network, which isn’t part of GCI’s cable package, is airing hour-long specials on four sled dog races, including the 2020 Iditarod.
‘Yukon Fox’ Emmitt Peters Sr., the third Iditarod champion, dies at 79
Emmitt Peters Sr., an Alaska Native who won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race as a rookie in 1975, has died at age 79 in his home village of Ruby.
Zirkle wins Iditarod’s humanitarian award for record 6th time
It’s the third straight year the Two Rivers musher has won the coveted Leonhard Seppala award for exemplary dog care.
A musher who never intended to run the Iditarod ends his race in rainy Unalakleet
Making it to Nome was never the goal for columnist John Schandelmeier, who jumped on the sled runners the day the Iditarod started in place of his wife.
And the winner is ... New Jersey man wins inaugural Iditarod trifecta
The contest drew 560 entries at $10 a pop.
Bookended by rookies, the Iditarod’s Elim 11 reaches Nome to mark the end of the race
Grayson Burton led the way in 24th place and Kaci Murringer claimed the Red Lantern in 34th place.
A weird and wild Iditarod is poised to wrap up as final mushers rest before their final push to Nome
The loss of top sponsors, the rescue of mushers and the threat of coronavirus were all part of the 48th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Here’s what happens when you learn you’re running the Iditarod the day the race begins
Daily News columnist John Schandelmeier recounts how he wound up on the sled runners for this year’s race in the first of two reports about his experience.
After getting stopped by icy overflow, Iditarod’s ‘Elim 11’ is back on the trail and headed for White Mountain
On Saturday morning the last 11 mushers in the race followed snowmachiners out of Elim, where some had been since Wednesday.
National Guard chopper crew rescues 3 Iditarod mushers from flooded trail near Safety
The three men and all of their dogs were doing fine Friday night, the race reported.
Iditarod’s top rookie rates her ride: ‘Like driving a Ferrari’
Mille Porsild of Denmark, who is accustomed to driving 100-pound freight dogs, guided a team of sled dogs to 15th place in the Iditarod.