The Iditarod Historic Trail Alliance has awarded the Iditarod Trail Committee $27,000 to fund trail maintenance between Rohn and Post River on the Iditarod Trail, the committee announced Wednesday.

Four-time Iditarod champion Lance Mackey will get a little national shine tonight, but you'll have to have premium cable to catch it.

North Carolina teacher Martha Dobson has been named the Teacher on the Trail for next year's Iditarod.

Two mushers in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race have tested positive for THC, the pyschoactive compound in marijuana, race officials said Thursday. But race officials say a new rule calling for drug testing isn't clear enough to impose sanctions.

Aerial landscape photographs from a small Cessna 185 through Windy Pass, Denali National Park to Nome and back to Anchorage through Rainy Pass.

A California university has released its contract with Sarah Palin for a June speech in order to comply with a court order. Cal State Stanislaus on Thursday made the document public after saying earlier in the day it did not have a copy.

Levi Johnston, the father of Sarah Palin's grandson, said in an interview on CBS' "The Early Show" to air Friday that he wishes he hadn't apologized for telling lies about the former Alaska governor because he's "never lied about anything."

Levi Johnston, the father of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's grandson, has filed papers to run for office next year in his hometown of Wasilla. Johnston filed his letter of intent Friday with the Alaska Public Offices Commission, a first step needed to begin campaigning.

It's been a summer of setbacks for Sarah Palin. A string of candidates endorsed by the Mama Grizzly in Chief have suffered primary election losses.

Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have committed to one thing: Not talking bad about each other.

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski's defeat in last week's Republican primary ends a 30-year-reign of Murkowskis in Alaska politics and political experts say it will weaken Alaska's political clout in Washington, D.C.

A judge in Sitka has dismissed subsistence fishing violation charges against Alaska state Sen. Albert Kookesh and three others.

Ten days ago, Scott McAdams had a volunteer treasurer and a few thousand dollars to help him pursue the Democratic nomination for U.S. senator in Alaska.

WASHINGTON -- Is the tea party the new Republican Party?