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Iditarod saga wins regional Emmy

Riding on the parka tails of three-time Iditarod champ Lance Mackey, the Iditarod Trail Committee has won a third-straight regional Emmy for a documentary about the 1,000-mile race from Anchorage to Nome.

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2009 IDITAROD 37

Feelings run high among Iditarod back-of-packers

Two months after a blizzard killed two dogs along the Iditarod Trail and threatened the lives of animals and mushers in several teams, the wounds suffered by the people who invest their emotional lives in dogs continue to bleed.
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Heads or tails, Lance Mackey wins with commemorative coin

Lance Mackey says he can't make heads nor tails out of all the attention he's receiving after winning his third straight Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
2009 IDITAROD 37

Iditarod code dictates musher's actions on the trail

As an evil cold settled over the Innoko River country and the winds roared across its wild desolation, Blake Matray knew his Iditarod dream was dying, and he let it go.
IDITAROD UPDATE

Last musher hits Nome; sixth dog death reported

The Iditarod reached the end of the trail early Tuesday morning with a Red Lantern winner from Michigan and the most dead dogs in more than a decade.
IDITAROD UPDATE

Sixth Iditarod dog dies during flight to Nome

A sixth dog in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race has died. Race officials say the dog on Alan Peck's team died during a flight from Shaktoolik to Nome.
2009 IDITAROD 37

Burmeister wins 2 race awards

Except for the half-dozen mushers still trudging toward Nome, the racing was over and tales of the trail held sway Sunday night at the Iditarod Finishers Banquet in Nome.
2009 IDITAROD 37

PETA asks for investigation into Iditarod dog deaths

An animal rights group wants Alaska State Troopers to open a criminal investigation into the deaths this year of five Iditarod dogs, including two on the team of a musher who says they froze to death.
2009 IDITAROD 37

Two more reach Nome in Iditarod

Jen Seavey and Tom Thurston reached the end of the trail Sunday, arriving in Nome to complete their 1,100-mile Iditarod journeys.
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Iditarod purse slashed whopping 35 percent

Pity Sonny Lindner, who finished 11th in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Twelve months ago, 11th place earned Zack Steer of Sheep Mountain $36,600. This year, the same effort will net the finisher $21,900 -- or $14,700 less.
IDITAROD COVERAGE

2 dead Iditarod dogs had fluid in their lungs

Omen and Maynard, the two dogs that died late this week in the Iditarod, had fluid in their lungs, race marshal Mark Nordman reported Saturday.