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Riley Dyche described 5-year-old Elway as fearless, smart and strong.

Eddie Burke Jr. and Hunter Keefe will need to face the windy Bering Sea coast before final placings get within reach.

With defending champ Brent Sass out, the top of the Iditarod field is scrambled, leaving four main teams at the top.

Sass said he had been sick the entire race with a bad cold and also had three cracked teeth.

Reigning Iditarod champion Brent Sass has scratched from this year’s race, due to what race officials described as “periodontal health” issues. So 31 teams remained in the race Saturday, and in this episode we hear from the chase pack-turned lead pack about how they were feeling about heading up the Yukon River, plus more from the top rookies in this year’s race. We have a powerhouse Dog of the Day with a funny, uh, pungent name, and a listener question about sled dog breeds that led us to the famous poodle musher.

Jason Mackey says he knows that the Iditarod trail was home for his brother.

Eddie Burke Jr.’s 5-year-old leader already has an impressive racing resume, but it’s only his first Iditarod.

On Wednesday, the state’s first-ever out, queer lawmakers sponsored a bill in the Alaska House to enshrine anti-discrimination protections in law. For LGBTQ Alaskans, it’s long overdue.

The trail on the Yukon River is reportedly hard and fast making for relatively easy running. But it makes plotting a surge up the standings tricky.

The community of about 140 people is roughly halfway into the race.

Cold overnight temperatures froze the softened trail into a bobsled track.

Iditarod teams are passing through the village checkpoint of Anvik and onto the Yukon River.  We have that, as well as stories from earlier on the trail about how mushers were setting their teams up for these runs earlier in the checkpoint of Iditarod and about the tiny village of Takotna reopening as an Iditarod checkpoint this year, after closing down due to COVID. Then there’ll be an update from Jason Mackey about carrying his brother Lance Mackey’s ashes along the trail, a Mackey Dog of the Day named COVID and a listener question about what the mushers are listening to, if they’re listening to anything at all, aside from, you know, dog feet and sled runners.

Jason Mackey got his lead dog Covid from his brother Lance, who died in September.

Few additional details were available Friday, including what caused the deaths.

His award included a five-course gourmet meal prepared by the executive chef at Marx Bros. Cafe, Jack Amon.

Kudrin, who died just a few days after her 82nd birthday, was among about 40 Attu residents taken to Japan as prisoners during World War II.

Homer-based Dr. Robin Holmes said going to a provider’s office to get a pill can be hard in parts of Alaska with few doctors.

Iditarod contenders are recalibrating their race strategies as the trail pushes through its most remote stretches.

Repair work on a broken water line has been hindered by freezing and thawing on the ice road between Bethel and Tuluksak.

In addition to paying fines, the YouTube channel's creator also posted a video setting the record straight on fishing regulations.