Lance Mackey won his second consecutive Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Wednesday morning, completing the 1,100-mile journey in just under nine and a half days.The 37-year-old throat cancer survivor and 11 dogs crossed the finish line under Nome’s...

Lance Mackey on Wednesday won his second consecutive Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, completing the 1,100-mile journey across Alaska in just under nine and a half days.The 37-year-old throat cancer survivor from Fairbanks and 11 dogs crossed the finish...

Lance Mackey won his second consecutive Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Wednesday, completing the 1,100-mile journey across Alaska in just under nine and a half days.The 37-year-old throat cancer survivor from Fairbanks and 11 dogs crossed the finish...

Defending champion Lance Mackey has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.The 37-year-old throat cancer survivor from Fairbanks and 11 dogs crossed the finish line under Nome’s burled arch at 2:45 a.m. ADT Wednesday.He yelled “Yeah, baby!” as he drove...

Lance Mackey is maintaining his lead as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race nears its end.Mackey was the first musher to leave the last checkpoint before the finish line in Nome. The defending champion left Safety at 11:44 p.m. local time Tuesday on the...

Three volunteers working the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race are being flown to Nome for medical treatment after their small plane went down.Alaska State Troopers say the three were on board a Cessna 180 used by the Iditarod air force, pilots who volunteer...

Victory in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is all but assured among two past winners who were waging a tight contest expected to end early Wednesday morning in this frontier town.There’s a second-tier race underway in the 1,100-mile trek to Nome. A...

This old gold rush town is almost ready for the grand finale of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. About all that’s left is to see whose dogs arrive first.The burled arch that marks the end of the 1,100-mile trek has been moved to Front Street from its...

The burled arch here is up and ready for the grand finale of the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. However, no one can predict who will reach it first.The winner is due to arrive in this old gold run town late Tuesday or early Wednesday. But who...