Balto’s starch-digesting ability fell in between the two groups. The new paper helps separate sled dog myth from reality. Born in Nome in 1919, Balto was considered by his owner, Leonhard ...

Elizabeth Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, leave a hearing at the Robert F. Peckham U.S. Courthouse on March 17 in San José, California, alongside an image of a statue of Balto.

As Kaasen rested, he praised Balto, “Damn fine dog.” While Balto and Kaasen only journeyed throughout the final stretch, the ...

As of Feb. 2, it has been 100 years since Gunnar Kaasen drove a dog team into Nome with the medicine that saved lives and staved off a potential diphtheria epidemic. Famously, Balto was in the ...

The dog that often gets credit for eventually saving the town is Balto, but he just happened to run the last, 55-mile leg in the race. The sled dog who did the lion’s share of the work was Togo. … ...