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Meet some of the people working to bring back the Yukon Quest in 2027

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:59
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By Tori Fitzpatrick  The iconic sled dog race was cancelled last month after a tumultuous few years When veteran musher

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Alaska’s ‘Superbowl’ of dog mushing, the Iditarod, set to run its normal northern route

Alaska Public Media
Posted: Monday, February 16, 2026 at 11:39
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By Ava White The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is less than a month away and set to run on its

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Finnmarksløpet: Travelling with dogs is true freedom

The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 10:51
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By Elizaveta Vereykina As the world’s northernmost sled dog race is in full swing in the north of Norway, we spoke

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Yukon Quest to follow new route this winter because of climate change

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 27, 2024 at 09:01
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Race in February will start and end in Teslin via Ross River and Faro The Yukon Quest sled dog race

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No Alaska dog mushers at next Arctic Winter Games without ‘true competition’

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 10:24
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The future of dog mushing at the Arctic Winter Games is in doubt again, as Team Alaska considers forgoing the

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Meet the mushers dressing in “full body armor” during the Iditarod race

Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 16:13
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As the Iditarod route winds up the wooded hillsides of the Happy River Steps, toward the jagged mountains ringing frozen

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Four-time Iditarod champion didn’t drug his dogs, according to a new report

Casey Grove, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 13:39
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An attorney for four-time Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey released a toxicology report Wednesday that he says proves the musher did

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Mackey withdraws from 2017 Iditarod for ‘health reasons’

Tegan Hanlon, Alaska Dispatch News @teganhanlon
Posted: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 12:48
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Four-time Iditarod champion Lance Mackey has withdrawn from the 2017 race to Nome because of “health reasons,” according to a

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Wide shot of the Centennial Flame with the Parliament building behind
The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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