A 2023 Iditarod winner is expected Tuesday morning.
"Richie Diehl"
Kuskokwim mushers cope with extreme cold, rain and glare ice: ‘It’s been weird’
Some Kuskokwim mushers competing in this weekend’s K300 race say that they’ve been contending with some of the most challenging training conditions of their careers.
Iditarod says musher who tested positive for COVID-19 likely became infected before race
Race officials have begun tracing who Johnson may have had close contact with over the last 300 miles of trail and multiple checkpoints.
The Iditarod starts Sunday, and it will look a lot different this year. Here’s what to know.
There’s required testing and face masks, plus a shorter trail and a smaller group of mushers signed up to compete.
Aniak’s Richie Diehl wins his first Kuskokwim 300 in record time
Diehl has now won both the Bogus Creek 150 and Kuskokwim 300 in the same year, something that has never been done before.
Highlights from Kuskokwim 300: Kaiser wins 5th title, and a surprise musher engagement
Though Bethel musher Pete Kaiser was met with a huge welcome from the hometown crowd, the real excitement came later, with dramatic sprints to the finish and an unexpected marriage proposal.
40 years later, a look back on how the race began and where it is heading
On Friday night in Bethel, the Kuskokwim 300 celebrated its 40th annual sled dog race. Over four decades the race has attracted Alaska’s best mushers, while offering a growing purse and serving as a cornerstone of local mushing. The founders say they could not have predicted how well known and respected that the race would become, or the local champion it would shape.
Pete Kaiser wins third consecutive Kuskokwim 300
Kaiser had eight K300 finishes to his name coming into the race and an experienced core team that has raced the past three years. Brent Sass took second and Richie Diehl placed third.