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Iditarod 2011 Sled Dog Race: 5 Facts Non-Mushers Need to Know

Erik Hill, The Anchorage Daily News / AP

Iditarod 39 officially left the chute this morning in Anchorage, Alaska. The approximately 1,150-mile sled dog race, held the first Saturday in March, pits man and man's best friend -- make that friends -- against nature in a cross-country trek to the finish line in Nome. Erik Hill, The Anchorage Daily News /...

Mackey Wins Iditarod for 4th Straight Time

NOME, Alaska (March 16) -- Lance Mackey won the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday to become the first musher in the event's 38-year history to win four consecutive races. Fans bundled up against subzero temperatures cheered the 39-year-old throat cancer survivor as his team coasted up the main street of...

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05/17/12 USDA Hosts Tribal Collaboration Meeting in Nome, Alaska Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture Recently, representatives of USDA and other federal agencies held a collaboration meeting with the federally recognized tribes of the Bering Straits/Norton Sound Region in Alaska.
05/05/12 Local man enjoyed time spent in Nome Source: Albert Lea Tribune - Albert Lea MN It was a little over a week ago that I received a call from Rex Stotts, a local man that has ties to Nome, Alaska.