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The grandson of Iditarod founder Joe Redington Sr. will be the first musher on the trail this year. Ray Redington, Jr., 36, will get started at 10:02 a.m. Saturday in the ceremonial start beginning in downtown Anchorage. Heading into his 11th Iditarod, Redington is coming off his best-ever finish of…

With Ray Redington Jr. leading the way down 4th Ave., Iditarod mushers began their 975-mile marathon to Nome with an 11-mile sprint through Anchorage on Saturday morning.Thousands of fans lined downtown streets to meet, cheer and photograph the mushers, whose destiny today is Campbell Airstrip, about 11 miles from the…

Zoya DeNure’s lead dog “Demon,” a reformed biter that we recently profiled in our “Meet the Sled Dogs” series, was injured Friday in a moose attack, the Gakona musher says. DeNure’s racing sled was also damaged in the melee.Read more here: http://community.adn.com/?q=adn/node/160016

Today is the beginning of one of the toughest (and most egalitarian) races in the world.The Iditarod covers 1,160 snow-covered miles. The race commemorates the heroism of sled dog mushers who, against the odds, delivered serum from Anchorage to Nome during a diphtheria epidemic. In 1927 before a vaccine was…

The Iditarod is almost 1,150 miles of nonstop action and rough terrain through Alaska. This year, there are three mushers with Idaho ties that you will want to keep tabs on.Read more here: http://www.ktvb.com/news/local/Idaho-mushers-will-start-Iditarod-trek-tomorrow-141226533.html

A field of 34 junior mushers took to the trails on the opening day of the Junior North American Championship sled dog races Friday afternoon at the Jeff Studdert Racegrounds.Fifteen teams competed in the one-dog class, 13 teams in the two-dog event, four in the three-dog class and two in…

Only 12 mushers from Interior Alaska are signed up to start the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race this weekend, but consider them a loaded dozen.Though only representing about 20 percent of the field, most are veterans and even champions of multiple 1,000-mile sled dog races. Two of them, Lance Mackey…

Today is the day. Sixty-six Iditarod mushers — 15 rookies and 51 veterans — will line up on Fourth Avenue to run their teams 11 miles through the heart of Anchorage.Most mushers have planned for this for years. At last they’re ready to pull their snow hooks under the banner…

Here’s how to tell them apart.Red hat and red-and-black sled? That’s Anna, the rookie. In the blue hat, with the blue-and-black sled, is Kristy, a two-time Iditarod finisher.“Our mom didn’t even know she was having twins until Anna was born,” said Kristy Berington, who is five minutes older than her…

While learning about the Iditarod dog sled race in their social studies classes, the fifth-graders at Glenwood Middle School imagined the far-off and chilly Alaskan wilderness.However, Shannon Miller and her Alaskan Husky, Miles, visited the school on Feb. 24 to show that dog sled racing happens here in Ohio as…