Ben Townsend, KNOM

The model, created by a team based in Michigan, forecasts 72 hours of sea ice movement through a colorful web-based animation.

The Rookie of the Year award goes to the fastest first-timer to complete the 1,000-mile race to Nome. This year it's Jesse Terry, one of three Indigenous rookies in this year's race. He is Anishinaabe and calls Sioux Lookout, Ontario home.

Iditarod teams now head onto frozen sections of Norton Sound, where windstorms have been known to derail a frontrunner's championship aspirations.

Snow continued to fall Saturday as 37 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race teams mushed through Alaska's largest city.

In a January memo, U.S. Secretary of Defense ordered the Pentagon to do a line-by-line review of 8(a) contracts worth over $20 million.