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

The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and ...

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

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

This year’s Iditarod starts March 1. “The Serum Run demonstrated the critical role sled dogs played in the survival and communication of remote Alaskan communities, while the Iditarod has ...

This year's Iditarod starts March 1. "The Serum Run demonstrated the critical role sled dogs played in the survival and communication of remote Alaskan communities, while the Iditarod has evolved ...

Alaska Serum Run FILE - The statue erected to honor "Balto" and other heroic sled dogs who carried serum to Nome, Alaska, through an Arctic blizzard is covered in snow in New York's Central Park ...

This year’s Iditarod starts March 1. “The Serum Run demonstrated the critical role sled dogs played in the survival and communication of remote Alaskan communities, while the Iditarod has ...

Instead, officials shipped the serum by rail to Nenana in interior Alaska, some 675 miles from Nome via the frozen Yukon River and mail trails. FILE – Leonhard Seppala and his sled dog team are ...