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Then, it was back to racing.

All mushers in the nearly 1,000-mile race across Alaska must take three mandatory rest periods: a 24-hour layover at any checkpoint, an eight-hour layover somewhere along the Yukon River and another eight-hour layover at White Mountain, which is 77 miles from the finish line.

At least one musher was stopped by a half-dozen buffalo on the trail from Rohn to Nikolai.

The USDA will fund relocation of buildings and infrastructure in 6 Alaska communities threatened by erosion and flooding.

Alaska's revenue commissioner said the value of state-held Russian investments has declined from $267 million at the end of last year to a current estimate of no more than $15 million.

Defending champion Dallas Seavey was the first musher to leave of Ophir. Brent Sass later passed him on the trail.

In her appearance alongside Pierce on Saturday, Grunwald said she wanted to purge ineligible voters from participating in elections.

For his first-place arrival, Burmeister won a pair of locally-made musher mitts and a musher hat.

Teams must navigate the Dalzell Gorge on their way to Rohn. It's marked by a series of steep downhills and some very tight turns.

Running the Iditarod takes months of preparation, training and a lot of money. While some mushers have major tour businesses and sponsors that help fund their kennels and pay for staff, Radano waits tables to help balance the big bills that come with being a dog musher.