Initially believed to be a cold, arid grassland, the stretch more resembled the modern-day Yukon-Kuskokwim floodplain.

Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, also known as "The Last Great Race," is now scheduled to run from Fairbanks to Nome, moving it ...

Residents in nearly 20 villages came to their airstrips last weekend to greet Bering Air planes, hug the pilots and pray ...

Iron Dog Ambassador team — the first group of machines to arrive in Nome ahead of Wednesday’s wrench day — pulled into the ...

Three teams hit the trail earlier this month for a reenactment of the 1925 Serum Run to Nome, a legendary effort that is credited with saving the town from diphtheria.

A woman and child helped a man escape from lock-up in a remote Alaska village, officials said.

This year is the 100th anniversary of the dog mushing relay that carried the diphtheria serum to Nome during a raging storm.

In this March 3, 2018, file photo, Eagle River, Alaska musher Tom Schonberger's lead dogs trot along Fourth Avenue during the ...

The Cessna 208 Caravan was operated by Bering Air, a regional airline. Its wreckage, with the bodies of the pilot and nine ...

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race will still have its ceremonial start in Anchorage on March 1, but the official start for the ...

This year, Alaska is celebrating not one, but two 100-year anniversaries: Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve and the Serum ...