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FILE - In this March 2, 2014, file photo, musher Nathan Schroeder drives his dog team down the trail just after the start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race near Willow, Alaska. The 46th running of Alaska's famed Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race kicks off Saturday, March 3, 2018, amid the most turbulent year for organizers beset by multiple problems, including a champion's dog doping scandal, the loss of major sponsors, discontent among race participants and escalating pressure from animal rights activists, who say the dogs are run to death or left with serious injuries. (Bob Hallinen/Anchorage Daily News via AP, File)

Alaska’s famed Iditarod is set to begin amid turbulent year

By RACHEL D'ORO - Associated Press

Alaska kennel of Iditarod champ in doping scandal probed

By RACHEL D'ORO - Associated Press

The Latest: Kennel of Iditarod champ in doping case probed

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Alaska bank joins Iditarod as major sponsor

By RACHEL D'ORO - Associated Press

Dave Delcourt, a handler on musher Ray Redington Jr.'s sled dog team, holds Dozer for a pre-race blood screening and heart check at Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race headquarters in Wasilla, Alaska, on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016. Low snow in the Anchorage area may cause havoc for the race's ceremonial start on March 5, 2016, and the race's board of directors will decide Friday, Feb. 12, 2016, whether the race will have to move its official start scheduled the next day in Willow, Alaska, further north to Fairbanks. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Low snow causes havoc again with Iditarod

By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press

In a Saturday, March 1, 2014, photo, Scott Janssen keeps control of his sled rounding the corner near Goose Lake during the ceremonial start for Iditarod 42 in Anchorage, Alaska. A weather pattern that has buried the eastern U.S. in snow has left Alaska fairly warm and relatively snow-free this winter, forcing the world's most famous sled dog race farther north. (AP Photo/Anchorage Daily News,Anne Raup)

Warm weather forced Iditarod farther north

By Mark Thiessen - Associated Press