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Federal cuts threaten staffing at Denali's sled dog kennel.

Leon, a 3-year-old husky, went missing while racing The Iditarod in Alaska in March Charmaine Patterson is an Associate Editor at PEOPLE. She first began working at PEOPLE in 2021 as a Digital News ...

The histories of sled dogs and humans in the Arctic have been intricately linked for thousands of years, so it is no surprise that the migration patterns of these dogs mirror those of humans through ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska—The world’s most famous sled dog race is longer this year than ever before. Thanks to a lack of snow, this year’s edition of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race needed a new route ...

Unless federal funding gets restored to the Denali National Park Sled Dog Kennels, there will be no sled dog patrols this ...

A large bull moose spent more than an hour stomping on the sled dog team of a rookie Iditarod musher in the wilds of Alaska last week — and the attack didn’t end even after Bridgett Watkins emptied ...

In 1925, a sled dog named Balto led his plucky canine team on the last leg of a grueling 127-hour dogsled relay across Alaska to bring lifesaving medicine to the people of Nome—the famous “Serum Run.” ...

The funding dispute is current as of September 2026, and the NPS confirms the dogs' essential role in winter wilderness operations.