TOM GERRISH WMUR NEWS NINE. WELL, THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SLED DOG DERBY IS A GO IN LACONIA THIS YEAR. ORGANIZERS SAY THAT THE TRAIL CONDITIONS ARE JUST GREAT FOR THIS EVENT. THANKS TO ALL THE RECENT ...

For the first time in three years, the Lyman family held three full days of races for their annual World Championship Sled Dog Derby at Opechee State Forest, in Laconia this past weekend.

Snow conditions were so terrible in southcentral Alaska this year that the Iditarod had to move its starting point over 200 miles north to Fairbanks. This is the fourth time the race has had to move.

ILULISSAT, Greenland — When Stella Davidsen Olsen was 12 years old, her father presented her and her twin sister with a choice. Her family owned sled dogs, which can be expensive and a lot of work.