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This year, the Alaska Public Radio Network is bringing you live daily updates from the Iditarod trail.
KSTK is broadcasting these updates during morning, midday, and evening news through the end of the race.
This is the first update from Days 1 & 2 of the race as the teams head out from Willow.

PERIODS OF RAIN INCREASING THROUGH MIDNIGHT. RAINFALL AMOUNTS
AROUND ONE TENTH OF AN INCH. SOUTHEAST WIND TO 10 MPH.

A Petersburg Fisherman early this month recovered more than half of the hand-carved cedar paddles that had been lost by the One People Canoe Society late last month.