One hundred years ago an outbreak of the deadly disease in the Alaskan outpost of Nome caught the world’s attention.

While some changes in mushing come from development in the sport, others have been forced by a changing climate. One part of ...

Are you team Husky or team Alaskan Malamute? These two Arctic breeds may look similar, but they have distinct differences in strength, temperament, and history. In this video, we compare the two ...

CHESTERFIELD — Vox, an Alaskan husky who raced with the Hilltown Sleddogs ... to the stomach and lymph nodes of the 9-year-old sled dog. In just those 24 hours, 61 donors had rallied, and ...

Clad in a thick fur coat, Alaskan sled-dog musher Gunnar Kaasen stood next to the hero of the moment: Balto, a Siberian husky who’d helped deliver medicine across a frozen frontier to halt a ...

Labrador mix alerts his owner, a fisheries technician, to the presence of brown bears while he works salmon streams.

From playing hooky to playing Husky, Nevills will be mushing for glory in the 100-mile Idaho Sled Dog Challenge race with her team of eight dogs - mostly Alaskan Huskies and Alaskan Husky mixes.

The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and under siege from a ...

Balto and a portion of the team were confined to the back room Los Angeles dime museum before they were purchased by a ...

Regular training keeps their minds sharp, and early socialization helps them become well-rounded dogs. The Alaskan Husky is primarily bred for pulling sleds and is not recognized as a standard breed ...