Departing in two-minute intervals, 33 mushers have left Fairbanks and the 1,128-mile race to Nome is officially underway.

Jessie Holmes arrived first to the White Mountain checkpoint at 8:39 a.m. Thursday, just as color was starting to creep into the sky over the frozen Fish River. The position puts the Nenana musher on ...

JUNEAU, Alaska -- The bodies of all 10 people who died in a crash of a Bering Air caravan in Alaska on Thursday have been recovered from the wreckage, according to the Alaska State Troopers.

All the victims are Alaskan residents, hailing from Nome, Wasilla, Anchorage, Unalakleet, and Eagle River. Their families have been notified and the Alaska state troopers said all of the bodies ...

Thirty-three mushers and their sled dog teams have begun the grueling 1,100-mile journey to Nome after the Iditarod restart ...