It took nearly a year and a half, but an Underwood, Minn., man who paddled a giant pumpkin from Grand Forks to Oslo, Minn., in October 2016 officially is the World’s Greatest Pumpkin Paddler. Rick ...

Sep. 23—The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Committee has announced the inaugural class for its newly formed Iditarod Hall of Fame. The class includes five-time champion Rick Swenson; four-time champions ...

According to a story posted Monday, Aug. 29, on the Washington Post website, Nebraska pumpkin paddler Duane Hanson on Saturday, Aug. 27, paddled an 846-pound pumpkin 38 miles down the Missouri River ...

Today we will step back to 1977 and look at Rick Swenson’s first Iditarod win. It was the fifth Iditarod race and Rick’s second Iditarod. By this time mushers were just learning how to really run the ...

Oslo, Minn. - It's a cross of James and the Giant Peach with Peter, Peter Pumpkin eater, in a true story you can't make up. "A half a mile beforehand, just as you’re getting mentally prepared, it all ...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- A Fergus Falls man who grows giant pumpkins is hoping to earn a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Rick Swenson says he plans to launch a giant pumpkin Saturday ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Rick Swenson, the only five-time winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, dropped out of the running Thursday — the first time he's scratched from the 1,100-mile trek to Nome in ...

FARGO, N.D. — With planting season around the corner, Peterson Farms Seed is hosting Cup of Agronomy sessions throughout the region to help prepare farmers for the upcoming planting season. A big ...

NOME -- At the end, the storms that had raked the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race for days finally died and the sun shone brightly on Lance Mackey as 15 dogs pulled him down Front Street on Wednesday to ...

WASILLA, Alaska (KTUU) - The historic Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race will soon have a Hall of Fame to “celebrate the people and dogs who have defined Alaska’s greatest tradition,” the Iditarod Trail ...

PERHAM, Minn. — For cereal grain growers in central Minnesota, wheat harvest often corresponds with the wildly popular WE Fest country music event in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, during the first week of ...