A Weare man is trying to track down the person who spray-painted his dog twice.Click to watch News 9's coverage.The husky, named Balto, occasionally escapes the backyard of his Pine Hill Road home, ...

While watching the news this past week about the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine, the former Borough Historian of Manhattan, Michael Miscione was reminded of something: that dog statue in Central Park ...

The adoption of a Texas husky named Balto marks the ten-millionth pet adoption for PetSmart Charities Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has ...

The Siberian husky Balto saved a town from a diphtheria outbreak. Now he's helping reveal the genetics of working dogs, 90 years after his death. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes Balto the sled ...

A shelter dog is set to celebrate Christmas in a loving home after a rough start to the year that almost cost his life. The odds were against Balto, the husky, when he arrived at Austin Pets Alive! in ...

One hundred years after the heroic journey to Nome, scientists reveal how Balto's DNA explains his incredible endurance and health.

DNA from the legendary husky whose achievements in part inspired the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is helping reveal how the intrepid canine—named Balto—and his contemporaries could survive and succeed ...

Balto, the Siberian husky who led the final leg of the mythic 1925 serum run to Nome, will be on loan from the Cleveland Natural History Museum to be part of the upcoming Polar Bear Garden exhibition ...

February 2, 1925 was a day of life-saving (and, dare we say, dogged) determination, for that was the day a dog sled team with Balto in the lead entered Nome, Alaska with an emergency supply of ...