The longest and most arduous leg was anchored by a lesser-known dog named Togo, whose team pulled over 260 miles through blinding snow and wind chills to 85 below zero! At one crucial interval, Togo ...

In the Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome a contagious disease known as the “strangling angel” put the town under siege 100 years ...

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

Nome, Alaska, remembers its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 2, 1925, the legendary Alaska Serum ...