Amid a recent outbreak of canine respiratory illness, BARCS is forced to refuse new intakes and is instead encouraging people ...

The longest and most arduous leg was anchored by a lesser-known dog named Togo, whose team pulled over 260 miles through blinding snow and wind chills to 85 below zero! At one crucial interval, Togo ...

My hike with a shelter dog, Balto, and seeing him experience true joy on the trail helped me process an unexpected future.

The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere and under siege from a contagious disease known as the ...

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

FILE – Gunnar Kaasen poses with his original dog team, including his lead dog Balto, top row ... After about 5 1/2 days, the serum reached its destination on Feb. 2, 1925.

If she goes, she risks not coming back to her family or her beloved island. Here's where Moana 2 really shows us how far Moana has grown. With age and greater status in Motunui, she's become far ...

A statue of Balto in Central Park Pete LaMotte via Flickr under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Seppala added, “It was almost more than I could bear when the ‘newspaper’ dog Balto received a statue for his ...

Togo, not Balto, was the driving force behind the 1925 Serum Run to Nome, which found teams of mushers and sled dogs delivering antitoxin to children suffering from diphtheria In June 1944 ...