Rob Downey's efforts related to work dogs transcend geographic and occupational boundaries, as his experience proves.

Quince Mountain had no idea how much the Iditarod, the world’s longest dog sled race, would test his endurance.

In an announcement Tuesday, the Iditarod Trail Committee said it had selected musher Dan Carter for the role. Carter ...

ALTA, Wyo. – I'm not sure who's having more fun, musher Michael Tarver or his sled dogs as we charge on through the white wonderland. Everything is white. Massive trees rise in the background and the ...

Organizers announced in June that the event’s CD150 and the CD80 would be combined into one race, the CD120, slated to begin ...

A musher drives a team of sled dogs, usually across snow and ice. But growing numbers of racers are showing the sport can thrive even if it's not winter. For the first time, the World Championship for ...

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, placing 15th out ...

With the warm weather seen this October it’s hard to picture the cold winter for the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon. Fundraising events are held throughout the year to prepare for this annual ...

Each February, mushers head to the Upper Peninsula to take on the UP200, a nearly 240-mile dog sled race that takes teams from Marquette to Grand Marais and back. The challenging, isolated course ...