Celebrate the heroic 1925 'Great Race of Mercy' as Nome honors its saviors, the sled dogs and mushers, who delivered life-saving serum through harsh conditions.

Air Force engineers and archaeologists in Alaska have discovered a food cache on the Upper Cook Inlet southwest of Anchorage ...

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Packer, who skied nationally at the highest levels, used his engineering background to create Text Me The Snow.

The first death was a 3-year-old boy on Jan. 20, 1925, followed the next day by a 7-year-old girl. By the end of the month, there were more than 20 confirmed cases. The city was placed under ...

In a telegram, Welch pleaded with the U.S. Public Health Service to send serum: “An epidemic of diphtheria is almost inevitable here.” The first death was a 3-year-old boy on Jan. 20, 1925 ...

Thanks to Alaska’s new telegraph lines and the spread of radio, the nation followed along, captivated, as 20 mushers — many of them Alaska Natives — with more than 150 dogs relayed the serum ...