During a summer hockey practice in 2021, Lucy Solheim awkwardly leaned over to pick up a puck off the ice. It was a normal, run-of-the-mill day for the Bemidji seventh grader until her dad noticed ...

High school boys in one Kuskokwim River village can 'forget the muscle cars,' said Barron Sample, principal of the school there. 'You get the muscle dogs,' he said ...

And he goes, ‘I just want to know when I can play hockey again.’” It was the key question for any hockey-mad 11-year-old, one ...

High school boys in Akiachak can “forget the muscle cars,” said Barron Sample, principal of the village’s school. “You get ...

The UP200 sled dog race returned after a two-year hiatus, as spectators came out in droves to witness the start of race in Marquette, Michigan, on 14.Recognized as one of the premier and gruelling mid ...

Gunnar Kaasen and his dog Balto, the heroic dog-sled team leader, sit for a portrait ... Those the local doctor, Curtis Welch, had were outdated, but he wasn't worried. He hadn't seen a case ...

The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere and under siege from a contagious disease known as the "strangling angel." Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors, ...

running in under six days a trip that usually took a sled team nearly a month. Nome’s only doctor’s telegram had begged: “An epidemic of diphtheria is almost inevitable here. I am in urgent ...

Hayes left Nenana on Monday with 16 Seppala Siberian sled dogs, registered descendants of Seppala's team. Diphtheria is ... Those the local doctor, Curtis Welch, had were outdated, but he wasn ...

The stars of the UP200 made a public appearance on the red carpet, or in the case of sled dogs, on the white carpet that was ...