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• For mushers who know real-life struggle, Iditarod is only part of the journey

  13-03-2016 21:00
  
  
  DeeDee Jonrowe is racing the 2016 Iditarod after she lost her home in a wildlife. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/KSKA)It’s been a week of racing for mushers in the Iditarod, and those in the middle of the pack are struggling. Though, it’s for a variety of different reasons. As Alaska Public Media’s Zachariah Hughes reports, for some the difficulty is the race itself, but for others it’s the challenges inside the lives they’re away from while out on the trail.
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• For mushers who know real-life struggle, Iditarod is only part of a bigger journey

  13-03-2016 21:00
  
  
  DeeDee Jonrowe is racing the 2016 Iditarod after she lost her home in a wildlife. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/KSKA)It’s been a week of racing for mushers in the Iditarod, and those in the middle of the pack are struggling. Though, it’s for a variety of different reasons. As Alaska Public Media’s Zachariah Hughes reports, for some the difficulty is the race itself, but for others it’s the challenges inside the lives they’re away from while out on the trail.
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• INTERVIEW: Brent Sass leads Iditarod to the Bering Sea coast

  13-03-2016 19:14
  
  
  Brent Sass is racing at the front of the 2016 Iditarod. (Photo by Emily Schwing/KNOM.)Brent Sass has been hard to catch in this year’s Iditarod. He has camped outside of checkpoints for the majority of the race, stopping only long enough to grab food and supplies, running his team much like he would in Alaska’s other 1,000 mile sled dog race, the Yukon Quest.
  The Eureka-based musher has consistently driven his team between eight and nine miles per hour in this Iditarod, and he is dri
  
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• Sass exits ‘camping mode’ as Iditarod kicks into high gear

  13-03-2016 19:08
  
  
  Brent Sass, pictured here in Ruby was the first musher to the Bering Sea Coast. (Photo by Zach Hughes, KSKA)Unalakleet was buzzing overnight as Iditarod mushers and their dog teams arrived on the Bering Sea Coast. As KNOM’s Emily Schwing reports, their sense of urgency was palpable.
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  Brent Sass’s dog team skittered to a stop on the hard packed snow and thick ice that covers most of Unalakleet. It’s only the second checkpoint along the race trail that Sass has spen
  
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• Snowmobiler suspected of hitting Alaska Iditarod dogs arrested after confessing - USA TODAY

  13-03-2016 18:31
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  Snowmobiler suspected of hitting Alaska Iditarod dogs arrested after confessing
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  A snowmobiler who said he was driving “blackout drunk" when he apparently struck and killed a sled dog competing in Alaska's famed Iditarod has been arrested, according to multiple media reports. “I don't know how I can possibly make it right,” Arnold ...
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• The Best New Travel Offerings For This Year's Alaska Season - Forbes

  13-03-2016 17:48
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  The Best New Travel Offerings For This Year's Alaska Season
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  A bush plane and a riverboat in Fairbanks, Alaska. (AP Photo/Sam Harrel). Alaska tourism grew during 2015, with nearly two million visitors between May 1, 2014 and April 30, 2015. The forecast for the 2016 season is looking strong as well, with 30 ...
  

• Magnitude-4.5 earthquake rattles parts of Alaska - Fox News

  13-03-2016 10:51
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  Magnitude-4.5 earthquake rattles parts of Alaska
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  ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A magnitude 4.5 earthquake rocked south-central Alaska on Saturday and was felt in the state's largest city, Anchorage. The National Tsunami Warning Center says the quake hit at 12:57 p.m. and was centered 50 miles northwest of ...
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• Night Music: March 12, 2016

  13-03-2016 08:00
  
  Here is the Night Music Playlist with Kirk Waldhaus.All tracks played are listed below in the following format:
  TitleArtist / Composer (if known or if blank artist or unkown)AlbumLabelSong Duration
  8:00 – 9:00
  Speak No EvilMike SmithOn a Cool NightDelmark DE-4488:29
  JeanieMike SmithOn a Cool NightDelmark DE-4488:31
  CaravanBen Webster / EllingtonAt the RenaissanceOJCCD-390-210:03
  Georgia on My MindBen Webster / CarmichaelAt the RenaissanceOJCCD-390-26:40
  I Just Called To Say I Love YouMatt
  
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• INTERVIEW: Aliy Zirkle’s race continues after snowmachine incident

  13-03-2016 04:26
  
  
  Kaltag turned out tocheer on Aliy Zirkle. The made signs to show their support after she and Jeff King were hit on the trail. (Photo by Emily Schwing/KNOM.)When Aliy Zirkle sped through Kaltag, she refused to answer question about an incident that involved a snow machine collision on the Yukon River overnight. After traveling down the trail in the afternoon sun for a few hours, Zirkle decided to camp with her dog team until afternoon temperatures cooled.KNOM’s Emily Schwing caught up with
  
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• Alaska Airlines to revamp its rural Alaska airport terminals - Alaska Dispatch News

  13-03-2016 03:25
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  Alaska Airlines to revamp its rural Alaska airport terminals
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  Preliminary artistic renderings of what the Alaska Airlines terminal remodel would look like at the Barrow airport. Courtesy Alaska Airlines. Alaska Airlines is about to spruce up and in some cases overhaul the 11 airport terminal facilities it owns ...
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• INTERVIEW: Sitting down with Aliy Zirkle in Galena

  13-03-2016 01:00
  
  
  Two Rivers musher Aliy Zirkle reached the Yukon River checkpoint of Galena Friday morning. (Photo by Zach Hughes/KSKA)
  On Friday, before Aliy Zirkle and her team’s run-in with a person riding a snowmachine who, according to an Iditarod press release, deliberately tried to harm her and her team, KNOM’s Emily Schwing sat down with her in Galena during Zirkle’s mandatory 8-hour layover.
  Zirkle has been racing a dog team in the Iditarod for the 15th time. In the last four year
  
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