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 ...

People from surrounding counties travel to the Lobo Lake Sled Hill each year to join the fun. Christian Garcia and his friends made the trip from Amherst to test out the speedy hills. “We’ve never ...

For once, the captain may not be under pressure in his seat, in the tie against Togo, even though he may always be reluctant to underestimate any opponent, irrespective of the significant ...

"The only way to get an anti-toxin in was by dog sled team," Hayes explained. "There was a relay of 20 teams that transported the serum from Nenana to Nome." The original Serum Run is often best ...

The inaugural run of the Su Dog 300 sled dog race has hit a snag…or more like a few puddles, and officials announced that the race has been canceled. “Here is the moment no one wanted to ...

"Being from Florida, we have a boogie board and then we also have a skim board," Michael Holmes, 35, said of his kids' makeshift sledding gear. “So far the skim board is working out really ...

The key to finding the right sledding hill was one close enough to walk to (or one close enough you could drive to it and count on a friendly stranger to push your car free if you got stuck.) ...