They’re all a part of Fur Rondy, an annual celebration that comes to Anchorage, Alaska, each winter and lasts about 12 days. This year marked the 90th celebration of the festival, held in late ...

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Advertisement The 53rd Iditarod began March 3 in Fairbanks, Alaska, after part of the traditional ... the last-place prize started as a joke during the Fur Rendezvous Race in 1953 and was adopted ...

athletes and ungulates share the road during the headlining event of Alaska’s Fur Rendezvous Festival Theaters from Washington to Florida and Massachusetts to Arizona show silent films ...

were joined by Russian fur traders in the 18th century, and later more settlers from the US arrived after the Alaska purchase in 1867. After docking at Kodiak, those who had secured the excursions ...

There’s something for everyone at Fur Rondy, from carnival rides to concerts to races for both two and four-footed athletes. Spain is famous for the Running of the Bulls. Alaska, however, dials down ...

“Fur Rondy” is another highlight of the long Alaskan winters, along with the Iditarod. The festival started as a tribute to the “sourdoughs,” as gold prospectors were called, and other pioneers who ...

troopers in Alaska said, Getty Images/iStockphoto A 38-year-old woman was arrested after she left her toddler in the car in freezing weather to have “a romantic rendezvous” at a hotel in ...