The Iron Dog, also known as the world’s longest, toughest snowmobile race, will be returning to Fairbanks in 2026.

Fairbanks gets $60K for park upgrades, flooding shuts down part of a Mat-Su trail, agencies team up for rescue drills, and ...

During the mid-1960s the News-Miner did a couple of stories about Athabaskan Elder Paul Solomon and his recollections of ...

Travel columnist Scott McMurren offers alternatives for a short trip, a weeklong stay and a longer journey through the state.

The most frequently collected items in Alaska, as recorded by cleanup volunteers, are fishing net and net pieces; fishing ...

WMBD viewers and a group of couples from Wisconsin, the Quad Cities, and Indianapolis embarked on a 13-day Holiday Vacations ...

Shields, the first woman to finish the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, died earlier this week in Fairbanks at age 80. She was remembered as an amiable Alaskan whose love for her dogs and adventure ...

The best-known dog mushing race in Alaska and around the world is the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which started from Fairbanks in 2025 for the fourth time ever and the first time since 2017.

A Farmington Hills native finished the highest of any rookie in the Iditarod, a world-famous sled dog race through the Alaskan wilderness. “It was amazing,” said Samantha LaLonde, 29, of ...

The 2025 Tanana Valley Sled Dog Races are officially over, with mushers taking part in races of varying distances, including the 50, 110, and 200-mile routes. The longest race stretched from Manley to ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Jessie Holmes, a former reality television star, won the longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Friday, celebrating with fist pumps to a cheering crowd and posing ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Jessie Holmes, a former reality television star, won the longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Friday, celebrating with fist pumps to a cheering crowd and posing for ...