To many casual onlookers, the Iditarod is a weird curiosity. The famed sled-dog race, which begins this year on March 1, tasks mushers with trekking roughly 1,000 miles across the snowy Alaskan ...

And a lack of snowpack forced the Fur Rendezvous’ annual three-day, 78-mile Open World Championship Sled Dog Races to be revised to a 9-mile Rondy Invitational. An abnormal winter has produced an ...

Data from the research showed that some of the more recent extreme years, like the 2004 and 2015 wildfire seasons, occurred ...

A gunman has been killed after shots were fired Saturday at a hospital in central Pennsylvania. The extent of injuries were unclear.

A shooting at a U.S. Air Force base in New Mexico early Saturday morning left one airman dead and another wounded, authorities said, adding that it was not an act of terrorism or an attack by an ...

Plus: Job losses at IRS, taxpayer privacy, Congress is making progress on the budget, changing your name, taxes on tips, tax ...