Matt Hall's team approaches the finish of the 2022 Yukon Quest 350-mile race (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) Organizers had hoped to return the race to a portion of its traditional route on the ...

Jennifer LaBar heads off on the 300-mile Yukon Quest. LaBar scratched from the race in Central. (Lex Treinen/KUAC) The Yukon Quest Alaska has revised its 2024 race plan. The organization has decided ...

EAGLE VILLAGE, Alaska - When Jody Potts-Joseph was growing up, her family mushed sled dogs during the harsh Alaskan winters to hunt and trap, feeding them salmon caught from the Yukon River by the ...

Hand it to any race that blares this headline atop its home page: "Do you really want to do this?" Paddlers unfulfilled by the 460-mile distance of the 10-year old Yukon River Quest this summer will ...

Jeff Deeter had never competed in any incarnation of the Yukon Quest. And despite more than 20 years of experience, the Fairbanks-based musher had never won a race. All that changed Thursday when ...

The 40 mushers competing in the Yukon Quest Alaska sled-dog races met with residents and drew their starting lineup on Thursday evening. The annual dog mushing event will take place Saturday on the ...

Yukon Quest Alaska officials have announced course changes for one of the three races that make up the annual dog mushing event. All teams competing in the Yukon Quest Alaska will start at 11 a.m. Feb ...

July 21, 14:30, somewhere just south of the Arctic Circle. Dehydrated, sunburnt, nursing blisters and suffering from nerve damage in our feet from standing for so long, we were just 20 miles from the ...

CHENANGO COUNTY – Local canoer Holly Crouch, a retired military veteran and current special education teacher at Sherburne-Earlville Central School, recently competed in the Yukon River Quest in Yukon ...

Teams begin arriving in Carmacks, the second checkpoint. As temperature fall to -50 Celsius technologies starts to fail. The GPS trackers that allow race officials and volunteers to predict the ...