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FILE - In this March 16, 2016 file photo Mats Pettersson, of Sweden, mushes along the frozen Bering Sea coast outside Nome, Alaska. Nearly 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) of unforgiving terrain, doused in deep snow this year, await them as they cross two mountain ranges, travel on the frozen Yukon River and navigate the treacherous and wind-whipped Bering Sea coast to old Gold Rush town of Nome. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen,File)

FILE - In this March 16, 2016 file photo Mats Pettersson, of Sweden, mushes along the frozen Bering Sea coast outside Nome, Alaska. Nearly 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) of unforgiving terrain, doused in deep snow this year, await them as they cross two mountain ranges, travel on the frozen Yukon River and navigate the treacherous and wind-whipped Bering Sea coast to old Gold Rush town of Nome. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen,File)

March 7, 2020

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Iditarod looks for relevance as race across Alaska starts
March 7, 2020 3:29 p.m.

Iditarod looks for relevance as race across Alaska starts

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — When 57 mushers line up Sunday for the official start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, it will be the second-smallest field in the past two decades. Only last year’s field of 52 was smaller.