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Mansfield native and sled dog musher Matthew Failor finished his 14th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Saturday night in Nome.

1967 - The first Iditarod is held, with 58 mushers competing along a 50-mile trail. March 1973 - After shorter races in 1967 and 1969, the first full-length race takes place. The course is ...

Former reality TV star Jessie Holmes won the 53rd Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Friday, March 14, ending a run that was as commanding as the race was long.

But this year’s trail is about 130 miles longer than normal and includes a loop from Kaltag, south to Eagle Island, Grayling, Anvik and Shageluk before heading back. Mushers said trail ...

By most accounts, conditions on the way down, from Kaltag toward a loop through the communities of Grayling, Anvik, and Shageluk, were abysmal. "I think it's one of the top 10 worst trails I've ever ...

But with the change in the trail map this year, due to low snow in southeast Alaska, the Iditarod Trail Committee set up a loop that takes mushers south from Kaltag to Shageluk and then back north ...

Update is current as of 7 p.m. on Monday, March 10. One week into the 2025 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the leaders are roughly two-thirds of the way to Nome and nearing the end of the extended ...

Jessie Holmes (bib #15) won the Alaska Air Transit Spirit of Iditarod Award, as the first musher to reach the Grayling 2 checkpoint, the second pass through Grayling on March 9.

On Sunday, Jessie Holmes reached Grayling for the second time, covering 659 miles of the Iditarod trail, marking the first team to do so. The next closest group of mushers were in Shageluk.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Hundreds of dogs ... The next musher closest to him is rookie Sydnie Bahl, who is resting in Shageluk. March 11 - 5:45 p.m. - Hall, Drobny round out current trio ...

Hall, who took his 24-hour rest in Galena (mile 369) and his eight-hour rest in Shageluk (mile 631), arrived at the Kaltag checkpoint at 4:45 a.m. Alaska time and departed at 4:57 a.m., turning ...