FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTUU/KTVF) - From the Iditarod to oil and the state constitution, historians and other experts have gathered at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) for the Alaska Historical ...

NIARADA - Veteran western Montana mushers Paul and Jeanne Strahl have long dreamed of competing in Alaska's famed Iditarod sled-dog race. When the 2005 Iditarod begins on March 5, the Strahls will be ...

In the winter of 1925, a deadly diphtheria epidemic threatened the isolated town of Nome, Alaska. With the only serum that could save lives located nearly 700 miles away in Anchorage, and with harsh ...

The 1925 Serum Run to Nome is remembered for dog sled teams, but aircraft were also considered, marking aviation’s tentative role in medical transport. Two Curtiss JN-4 “Jenny” biplanes were available ...

ELKA PARK — The Mountain Top Historical Society will host a Mobile Book Group hike in Elka Park with the author of “The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic” ...

Before Balto became a statue in New York’s Central Park, he was one of many dogs who raced through subzero blizzards in the 1925 serum run, a 674-mile relay to deliver life-saving diphtheria antitoxin ...

NOME, N.D. — Chris Armbrust may know how to weave fleece into yarn, but she’s not one to have the wool pulled over her eyes. So when the fiber artist/owner of the Nome Schoolhouse Inn and Event Center ...

On January 27, 1925, the serum was transported by train from Anchorage to Nenana, the northernmost point reachable by rail. From there, a relay of 20 mushers and about 150 sled dogs would carry the ...

Not all transportation has wheels. Sometimes it has paws. Before planes and highways, Alaska relied on sled dogs. The Iditarod honors the 1925 serum run to Nome, showing how transportation—and heroism ...

When you think about the greatest animated movies from the 1990s, chances are you're thinking of the Disney Renaissance, understandably so. Starting with the release of The Little Mermaid in 1989 and ...