The island’s traditional dog-sledding championship is taking on added cultural and political importance in the era of Donald ...

Leon, a 3-year-old husky, went missing while racing The Iditarod in Alaska in March Charmaine Patterson is an Associate Editor at PEOPLE. She first began working at PEOPLE in 2021 as a Digital ...

I’m not sure who’s having more fun, musher Michael Tarver or his sled dogs as we charge on through the white wonderland.

In 1925, a handsome male sledge dog named Balto led a 13-dog team that braved blizzard conditions during the gruelling final 53-mile (85-km) leg of a 674-mile (1,088-km) dogsled relay, bringing ...

Dog sledding is technically a competitive sport, but as an Idaho musher noted, for most, it's hardly a money-making business.

As the name suggests, Siberian Huskies hail from Siberia and they were developed first and foremost to work as sled dogs. It’s why they’re well built and strong, capable of working together in ...

The simultaneous barking of 10 Alaskan huskies was deafening. Each was tethered to the dog sled but lunged and pulled in different directions, several dogs bouncing off the ground like popcorn ...

New research co-led by Cornell University examines thousands of years of Arctic sled dog ancestry and reveals when and how Siberian and Alaskan sled dogs' DNA mixed. "There was a real concern from ...