A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 2, 1925, the legendary Alaska Serum ...

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

Balto and a portion of the team were confined to the back room Los Angeles dime museum before they were purchased by a ...

Humans and dogs have a long history together. In December, researchers from the UA Museum of the North’s (UAMN) department of ...

The temperature hovered around freezing in New York’s Central Park on December 15, 1925. Clad in a thick fur coat, Alaskan ...

While some changes in mushing come from development in the sport, others have been forced by a changing climate. One part of ...

Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through ...

as 20 mushers — many of them Alaska Natives — with more than 150 dogs relayed the serum to Nome. They battled deep snow, whiteouts so severe they couldn’t see the dogs in front of them ...