In the winter wonderland that is the Upper Peninsula, businesses that benefit from tourism are doing much better this year ...

The Rockton Yeti Fest, running from Wednesday, Feb. 5 until Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025, is billed as “a festival where the abominable snow people of Rockton and their friends come out to enjoy a mixture ...

As the temperature plummets toward zero or colder, most people find some indoor activity that needs attention and throw another log on the fire. Others prepare themselves for protection against ...

The UP 200 dog sled race is starts in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, with the route from Marquette, southeast around Munising and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, to Grand Marais and back to Marquette, ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — A Montana musher won the 100-mile race of the Idaho Sled Dog Challenge for a third time on Wednesday.

The Idaho Sled Dog Challenge has been canceled due to severe avalanche danger. Originally the race was put on a 12-hour hold but after reports of an avalanche and worsening conditions race ...

Before racing on Saturday, all teams must get evaluated by a team of veterinarians from the International Sled Dog Veterinary Medical Association. The public is invited to come watch the process ...

Caroline Nevills, a 17-year-old musher from Middleton, Idaho, captured first place in the Idaho Sled Dog Challenge's "Warm ...

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

Musher Caroline Nevills from Middleton, Idaho, and her sled dog team start the first leg of the two-day, 52-mile Warm Lake Stage Race at the seventh annual Idaho Sled Dog Challenge. / Photo by ...

Gunnar Kaasen and his dog Balto, the heroic dog-sled team leader ... They battled deep snow, whiteouts so severe they couldn't see the dogs in front of them, and life-threatening temperatures ...