Founded in 1980, the marathon honors the legacy of John Beargrease, who delivered mail by dogsled along the North Shore in the late 1800s. It is the longest sled dog race in the United States outside ...

FINLAND — A Grand Marais woman handily won the John Beargrease half-marathon, a 107.5-mile sled dog race through Northeastern Minnesota snow and woods. Joanna Oberg was the first to cross the finish ...

Minnesota’s annual John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon will not be held this year, per CBS News Minnesota. The organizers made this decision on Tuesday, Jan. 2, as a result of an unusually mild winter ...

GRAND PORTAGE, Minnesota — The John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has once again taken mushers and their teams across northern Minnesota, and one team finished just before any other. Ryan Anderson won ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The new leadership team for northern Minnesota's John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon expressed optimism Tuesday about restoring the struggling race to its former glory, when the ...

the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon will return this weekend for its 40th running. Organizers announced in a press release Wednesday the starting line has been moved from Billy's in Duluth to a ...

DULUTH-In an effort to attract more mushers and infuse new energy into their event, organizers of the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon have agreed to shorten the iconic winter race that skirts the ...

DULUTH — Ryan Anderson spent the few seconds before his staggered start of the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon checking in with his dogs — a team that includes seven Alaskan huskies who helped him ...

Natalie Harwood spots some fans in the crowd as she leaves the starting line of the 2013 Beargrease. Thirty mushers and 420 dogs will hit the trail again this Sunday. When it comes to staying informed ...

With huskies Henry and Ghost leading the way, Ryan Redington of Skagway won the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon in Minnesota on Tuesday, capturing his second championship in three years. Redington ...

John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon kicks off despite warm weather Freking Family Tradition: Local family set to compete together in the Beargrease 120 Changes to the first leg of the Beargrease Sled ...

GRAND PORTAGE — Keith Aili’s dogs stopped a few feet short of the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon Finish Line — a fluorescent-orange spray-painted line in the snow. After a bit of coaxing, the eight ...