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The Anchorage School District has closed five elementary school libraries to evaluate potentially dangerous snow buildup on top of schools.

Iditarod teams are contending with warm weather in the thousand-mile race, many choosing to run in the cool of night as much as possible. We'll talk about that in this episode, plus a little about what other sports some mushers have participated in outside of mushing. We have another Dog of the Day -- this time, a trusty leader named JoAnna and, as always, a listener question.

Iditarod officials had warned mushers that the trail into Nikolai would have the worst moguls in race history.

Mushers slept. Dogs slept. And sled repairs got underway.

Dunleavy's bill would require more parental permission to teach sex education and change students’ names or pronouns in school.

Nearly two dozen members of the Alaska House and Senate signed on to a letter to Walgreens CEO Rosalind Taylor.

The Iditarod this year looks almost exactly as it did pre-pandemic.

Iditarod musher Matthew Failor is excited that his leader Mach 10 has picked up a new skill: the art of the trot.

Kotzebue and the Northwest Arctic Borough have declared a disaster after a series of massive snowstorms battered western Alaska.

Iditarod mushers are making decisions about where to stop for their mandatory 24-hour rests, some opting to take that break earlier than planned, as the teams continue to contend with warm weather. The village of Nikolai is also fully open to visitors for the first time in three years of COVID-19 restrictions, and that's where some mushers were dealing with busted sleds and their own bruised bodies. In this episode, we also get into how the race shapes up after those 24-hour layovers and how the weather is expected to change for the cooler. Plus, we have a speedy Dog of the Day -- Matt Failor's Mach 10 -- who's learning to slow down, plus a listener question, a musher answer and a follow-up to yesterday's question about adopting retired sled dogs.

Gregg Vitello was the last musher into Nikolai. He's had his fair share of troubles on the trail.

The city will hire a consultant to receive and investigate complaints, after the homelessness coalition said clients’ basic needs are not being met.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s proposal was formally introduced in the House and Senate on Wednesday.

As the race transitions from big mountains and technical terrain into the heart of Alaska’s Interior, mushers are watching their teams come into race form.

Hunter Keefe’s dog Senior brings years of Iditarod experience to his musher’s rookie run.

After an incident last year in which a dog escaped, officials are trying to attach tracking collars to all dogs left behind at checkpoints.

From sweet and sour chicken to dried mangoes, there’s a variety of food in mushers’ vacuum-sealed bags.

In this episode, we hear from Iditarod mushers in the midst of their required 24-hour layovers and from our current Red Lantern musher. We also have a chat with a former top 10 musher who’s returning to the race and running a team of mostly rookie dogs, plus a look at the Iditarod's new pilot program for tracking dropped dogs. And as always we have our Dog of the Day -- not a new dog but a dog who got a new name -- and a listener question with answers from several mushers this time. (Hint: This one might make you hungry).

"I come every Monday, Wednesday and Friday," said Maurine Loopstra. She has been a member of the Y since the day it opened over 50 years ago.

The only things that disrupted the peace: mushers snoring.