Nome, Alaska, remembers its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, ...

The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and under siege from a ...

(AP Photo, File) Gunnar Kaasen poses with his original dog team, including his lead dog Balto, top row, second left, in 1925, which he drove through a blinding blizzard to deliver life-saving serum, ...

a kennel club board member and co-owner of Alaska’s oldest newspaper, the Nome Nugget. “People just dropped whatever they were doing,” she said. “These mushers got their teams ready and ...

a kennel club board member and co-owner of Alaska’s oldest newspaper, the Nome Nugget. “People just dropped whatever they were doing," she said. "These mushers got their teams ready and went ...