Now, 100 years later ... as unsuited for the weather. There were no roads or trains that reached Nome. Instead, officials shipped the serum by rail to Nenana in interior Alaska, about 675 miles ...

The United States experienced other horrific tornadoes in the last century. More than 200 people perished in 1936 when Tupelo ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska ... run to Nome — dogs like Balto and Togo. This year is the 100th anniversary of the dog mushing relay that carried the diphtheria serum to Nome during a raging storm.

Fifteen miles east of Nome, she flew past familiar summer camps ... completed the original run. Lemaire said that 100 years later, the dogs are the common denominator. “Even though the technolog ...

Emily Robinson cemented her legacy in the youth dog mushing world as the only person to win the Jr. Iditarod four straight ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska Gold Rush town of ... "strangling angel" for the way it suffocated children. Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Gold Rush town ... angel” for the way it suffocated children. Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who ...