The Alaska Railroad Corporation (ARRC) intends to ask lawmakers to authorize a bond for a major overhaul of its Seward ...

On Friday, dogs running the 300-mile race received vet checks to make sure the dogs were healthy and safe before taking on ...

as 20 mushers — many of them Alaska Natives — with more than 150 dogs relayed the serum to Nome. They battled deep snow, whiteouts so severe they couldn't see the dogs in front of them ...

Gunnar Kaasen and with his dog Balto, the heroic dogsled team leader, sit for a portrait in the early 1920s. (AP Photo, File) In the Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome a contagious disease known as the ...

In this 1925 file photo, Gunnar Kaasen poses with his original dog team which he drove through a blinding blizzard to Nome, Alaska, to deliver diphtheria serum to save the town from being wiped ...

as 20 mushers — many of them Alaska Natives — with more than 150 dogs relayed the serum to Nome. They battled deep snow, whiteouts so severe they couldn’t see the dogs in front of them ...

including his lead dog Balto, top row, second left, in 1925, which he drove through a blinding blizzard to deliver life-saving serum, in Nome, Alaska. (AP Photo, File) Other communities are also ...

Instead, officials shipped the serum by rail to Nenana in interior Alaska, some 675 miles from Nome via the frozen Yukon River and mail trails. FILE – Leonhard Seppala and his sled dog team are ...