KTVA CBS 11 News (Anchorage, Alaska)
Tired eyes are all over the Iditarod trail
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- Tired eyes are all over the Iditarod trail
- Runtime
- 1:38
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Having a tired day? Now imagine what it's like being a musher in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Mushers go long hours for about a week and half pushing themselves with little sleep. And at some point that credit card bill comes due.
Sometimes late, sometimes early.
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- Beaver, lamb, tripe & horse: Iditarod dogs fuel up on interesting proteins
- Runtime
- 2:24
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Dog teams coming into Unalakleet for a break are hungry after long stretches on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Iditarod veterinarians estimate the canine competitors burn up to 12,000 calories a day.
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- 25 Years of BP Teachers of Excellence: Chohla Moll
- Runtime
- 1:30
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Chohla Moll is a science teacher at Mt. Edgecumbe High School in Sitka. She says the school's location gives unique learning opportunities to students who come from all over the state to get their education.
To catch up with former BP Teacher of Excellence honorees, visit KTVA.com/teachers.
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- Iditarod photographer stays in focus with new project
- Runtime
- 2:07
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- You need a career change, but you're still doing most of your work in the same place. Is that really a career change?
For Jeff Schultz the answer is yes.
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- 'I thought she was dying in my hands': Failor says Iditarod vet saved his dog's life
- Runtime
- 2:36
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- His dog was dying when musher Matthew Failor said a volunteer veterinarian jumped into action, performing an emergency procedure at the Takotna checkpoint that saved her life.
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- Kelly Maixner nearly killed by a snow hook in January, mushes Iditarod in March
- Runtime
- 1:49
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Kelly Maixner is tough. How tough is he?
Kelly Maixner is so tough he took a snow hook to the head in January and two months later chose to mush 1,000 miles in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race with a metal plate in his head.
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- Iditarodities: Are Iditarod mushers superstitious?
- Runtime
- 1:43
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Many athletes have different rituals they complete before a game that they believe will help them come out on top. Some might even call them superstitions.
But do mushers on this year's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race consider themselves superstitious?
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- Camaraderie combats loneliness along the Iditarod trail
- Runtime
- 2:08
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- The thousand-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to Nome can get lonely, but some of the front runners are keeping each other company along the trail.
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- Veteran musher Jessie Royer recounts sled fire on Iditarod trail
- Runtime
- 1:05
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Jessie Royer has been burning up the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to Nome, quite literally. She blazed into the Ruby and Galena checkpoints in first place with other mushers hot on her tail. Her team is in good shape but her sled is a little scorched.
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- How Iditarod leaders handle halfway to Nome
- Runtime
- 1:49
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- At this point in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, it's about staying in the fold. There are too many miles left and too much can happen.
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- Iditarod fuels dreams for aspiring teen musher in McGrath
- Runtime
- 1:16
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- As a kid, Ivory Lyman says she basically lived at the McGrath checkpoint during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Now at 17, she volunteers to pitch in with the work.
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- Rookie Iditarod musher gets help from teacher on the trail
- Runtime
- 1:24
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- When is a replacement sled not a replacement sled? Rookie Iditarod musher Mille Porsild got caught a much-needed break from the teacher on the trail after leaving behind something important in Nikolai.
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- Nic Petit mushes on despite misfortune along Iditarod trail
- Runtime
- 1:24
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- When it comes to The Last Great Race Nicolas Petit can't catch a break. After coming painfully close to winning the Iditarod in 2017, 2018 and a late scratch in 2019, this year it's simply about pain. Upon his arrival into Nikolai Tuesday evening, he said he was feeling "really good" about scratching. But he did not.
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- Mushers find peace and quiet during 24 hour layover in McGrath
- Runtime
- 2:25
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- More than a dozen mushers blew through McGrath early Wednesday night, eager to continue on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. But the ones who stayed were greeted with peace and quiet as the sun rose over the Kuskokwim.
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- Night time is light time for one Iditarod musher
- Runtime
- 1:20
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Lev Shvarts made his own headlamp for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The veteran is running his fifth Iditarod and like all other mushers is prepared. When he needed a headlamp, the engineer in him took over.
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- Rainy Pass visitors ride in style in antique snowmobile
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- The Rainy Pass Lodge has a fully restored 1924 Model T Ford Snowmobile to shuttle visitors around the Iditarod checkpoint.
Find complete Iditarod coverage at ktva.com/iditarod.
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- Berington twins: Blazing their own trail, their own way
- Runtime
- 1:23
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- As identical twins in the sport of sled dog racing, Kristy and Anna Berington have been recognized many times nationally. But their likeness is only part of it.
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- Veteran musher Richie Diehl awarded beaver mitts for being first in Nikolai
- Runtime
- 1:27
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- When mushers spend some time in the villages that host Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race checkpoints, it quickly becomes apparent that the race is about tradition and culture.
Veteran musher Richie Diehl arrived into Nikolai first and was rewarded a gift from the village — a pair of beaver mittens and a big wool blanket.
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- Rainy Pass draws Iditarod bucket list visitors
- Runtime
- 2:33
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race draws spectators from around the world who travel to Alaska to watch the race in person. KTVA's Heather Hintze interviewed two couples who scratched the Last Great Race off their bucket lists.
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- Rainy Pass: Drobny is singing, while a save by Sass keeps Maixner going
- Runtime
- 1:32
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- With the sun shining, Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race mushers and their teams strode into Rainy Pass Monday afternoon under crystal blue skies.
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- 25 Years of BP Teachers of Excellence: Alexandra Razor
- Runtime
- 1:31
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- To give back to the community you grow up in can be very rewarding and special.
Juneau-Douglas High School teacher Alexandra Razor said her family has been back for the better part of a decade. She's said she's happy to be home in the city where she grew up.
To learn more about all our featured BP Teachers of Excellence, head to ktva.com/teachers
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- Iditarod CEO Rob Urbach looks to the future of the Last Great Race
- Runtime
- 3:37
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- As he looks toward the future of the Last Great Race, Iditarod CEO Rob Urbach says his goal is to keep what's made the race great while building its growth.
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- Mushers look ahead to a snow path for Iditarod 2020
- Runtime
- 2:07
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Iditarod mushers started the 2020 race with a downpour of snow as they made their way to the first checkpoints.
Get complete coverage of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race at ktva.com/iditarod
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- Iditarod fans cheer on sled dog teams at Willow restart
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- There's a lot of snow in Willow at the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race restart. But fans say the snow weather is worth it for the chance to cheer on their favorite sled dog teams as mushers head toward Nome.
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- Frontiers: The Rise of Champions
- Runtime
- 3:32
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- The approach is the same but the view is different this year. Such is the life of an Iditarod champion.
Pete Kaiser is good with it. 2019 was a year to behold for the Bethel musher. He finally claimed that elusive victory in The Last Great Race and the win seemingly meant as much to others as it did him.
Read the full story on ktva.com/frontiers
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- Ride the Iditarod Trail with Quince Mountain
- Runtime
- 1:18:29
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- It's an 11-mile party! Take a ride down the Iditarod ceremonial start trail with musher Quince Mountain. Quince is a rookie musher from Wisconsin. With him is Bob Schmidt, visiting from Los Angeles, and Casey Grove, a journalist with Alaska Public Media.
Get complete coverage of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race at ktva.com/iditarod
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- Iditarod In Focus 2020
- Runtime
- 21:39
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- As 57 mushers — 15 women and 42 men — prepare to run the 48th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the KTVA team gears you up for the path to Nome.
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- KTVA Weather Lab: Rilke Schule
- Runtime
- 1:30
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Chief Meterologist Melissa Frey visited Rilke Schule to teach students there about meterology. In turn, the students taught her some German.
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- Dunleavy, Alaska health officials give coronavirus update
- Runtime
- 40:52
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Gov. Mike Dunleavy and state health officials provide details on preparations for a potential coronavirus outbreak in Alaska.
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- 25 Years of BP Teachers of Excellence: Jamin Burton
- Runtime
- 2:45
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Educator Jamin Burton makes sure his students step up to the big and fun challenges he presents.
Burton has taught band at Colony High School for 16 years. In that time, he's put the Knights on the map, performing at marquee U.S. events that include the Macy's Parade, the Rose Bowl Parade and President Obama's 2009 inauguration.
Read more about Burton and all our featured BP Teachers of Excellence at ktva.com/teachers
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- Inside the Gates: How music therapy helps service members, veterans
- Runtime
- 2:41
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- In 2017, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson introduced a new kind of therapy to help wounded warriors recover from injuries most of us cannot see.
Creative Forces is a program from the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, which helps service members and veterans heal their minds through writing and music.
"Music is one of the only activities that can actually activate multiple regions of your brain at the same time," said therapist Danielle Kalseth.
Read the full story on KTVA.com
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- Frontiers 199: Alaskans and Their Passion Projects
- Runtime
- 24:16
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
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- KTVA Weather Lab Homestead Elementary
- Runtime
- 0:59
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Homestead Elementary School students learn how weather moves about the globe.
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- BP Teachers of Excellence: Emily Forstner
- Runtime
- 2:41
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Emily Forstner began teaching in 1982. She retired a few years ago after several years heading the journalism program at Wasilla High School. While she appreciated the free time associated with retirement, Forstner said she quickly discovered she missed teaching.
She wanted to find a way to continue contributing to public education. That’s when she thought about becoming a mentor.
Read more about Forstner and other BP Teachers of Excellence at ktva.com/teachers.
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- 360: Clint Kyffin tears down the North face of Alyeska
- Runtime
- 5:18
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Girdwood resident Clint Kyffin tries out some fresh powder on the North face of Alyeska. The resort is approaching 400 inches of snow this season.
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- 25 Years of BP Teachers of Excellence: Dimond High gears up with $10K STEM grant
- Runtime
- 1:44
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Providing programs and resources to ensure students have the tools to excel and be inspired is paramount to the state's education system.
BP Alaska awarded $60,000 in grants for science, technology, engineering and math programs in 10 Alaska public schools this year. Dimond High School in Anchorage got $10,000.
“Science, math, technology, engineering — we have an awesome STEM department here, and we’re kind of known for it,” boasted former BP Teacher of Excellence winner Lea Bouton.
Read more at ktva.com/teachers
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- KTVA Weather Lab: Fire Lake Elementary students learning in and out of the classroom
- Runtime
- 2:08
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- The students were very eager to learn about the foundations of meteorology and how to forecast the weather, but they were also eager to learn a new skill outside of the classroom, one they invited me to learn with them as well.
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- 25 Years of BP Teachers of Excellence: Wasilla Middle School STEM grant
- Runtime
- 1:48
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- BP Alaska awarded $60,000 in STEM grants to 10 Alaska public schools this year. Wasilla Middle School received a $10,000 grant.
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- Frontiers 198: Yup'ik Language Pipeline
- Runtime
- 24:15
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- By Rhonda McBride, KTVA
One of the big takeaways from efforts to revitalize Alaska Native languages: A language is much more than just words. It’s the backbone of a culture’s ability to survive and adapt to its environment.
Despite its importance, the loss of Native languages has been steady over the last 100 years.
Today, most are on the edge of extinction, except for a few like the Yup’ik language, which has about 10,000 speakers, the most of any Alaska Native group – far less than even 20 or 30 years ago – but still the language with the most potential to make a comeback.
Yup’ik, or Yugtun, is heard the most in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. In about 25 percent of the communities you can still find children who speak Yugtun as their first language. Linguists say that’s important, because without new speakers, a language is sure to die.
Another hopeful sign: the Yup’ik language is being taught in Anchorag...
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- Fire burns at school in Kaktovik on Friday, Feb. 7, 2020.
- Runtime
- 0:22
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Video courtesy Melvin Kayotuk
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- KTVA Weather Lab: Campbell STEM Elementary students learn about data collection
- Runtime
- 1:23
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Chief Meteorologist Melissa Frey stopped by Campbell STEM Elementary School to show students how she observes the weather, the instruments she uses, and what the data looks like when it comes into the KTVA Weather Lab.
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- 25 Years of BP Teachers of Excellence: STEM grant awarded to Sitka High School
- Runtime
- 1:39
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- Sitka High School is one of 10 Alaska public schools that will benefit from $60,000 awarded in STEM grants through BP Alaska this year.
To catch up with former BP Teachers of Excellence honorees, visit ktva.com/teachers.
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- Frontiers 197: To Heal the Future
- Runtime
- 24:16
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- By Rhonda McBride
We hear a lot about Alaska’s rates of sexual assault, some of the highest in the nation – six times the national average for children. And while the statistics get a lot of attention, the focus is rarely on the survivors of abuse, who are scattered in our midst – friends, family, neighbors, co-workers – who struggle with trauma from the past as best they can. For many, it has poisoned the present and threatens the future.
In this episode of Frontiers, we’d like to change the conversation, with a look at how survivors have coped with their trauma and moved forward on their healing journeys.
You can hear these stories at the Rural Providers’ Conference, a gathering every summer that explores the underlying causes of addiction. It’s part of a grassroots Alaska Native sobriety movement that began almost 40 years ago.
In recent years, the conference has given more attention to child sexual abuse – a dark ...
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- Frontiers 197 Web Extra: Elsie Boudreau
- Runtime
- 13:08
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- An extended interview with Elsie Boudreau, who was sexually abused by a Catholic priest, starting at the age of ten. Boudreau was featured on KTVA's Frontiers program, which looks at healing from trauma caused by sexual abuse.
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- Elsie Boudreau speaks at 2019 Rural Providers Conference
- Runtime
- 42:28
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- By Rhonda McBride, KTVA
Elsie Boudreau was the keynote speaker last year at the Rural Provider's Conference, an annual grassroots Alaska Native gathering, which promotes sobriety and healing from the traumas of sexual assault and violence.
Boudreau was sexually abused by a Catholic priest, starting at the age of ten. Although she talks about her recovery, which began when she confronted the priest at the age of 19, the the main focus of her speech was how to tap into traditional Native culture to find hope and healing -- as well as answers that have always been there, thanks to the wisdom of the elders, who knew that one of the most important first lessons for a child was how to be "a good relative."
Boudreau told the gathering, "We know what it means to be a good relative. Our ancestors have lit the way for thousands of years."
"Trusting in that light," she said, "generates a strength from within, that illuminates brightly and mak...
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- KTVA Weather Lab: Ravenwood and Susitna Elementary Schools
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- KTVA's Meteorologists Melissa Frey and Jeremy Lagoo visit Ravenwood and Susitna Elementary Schools to teach students about weather instruments and how they help meteorologists forecast the weather.
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- KTVA Weather Lab: Willow Crest Elementary School
- Runtime
- 1:12
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- KTVA's Chief Meteorologist Melissa Frey visits Willow Crest Elementary School to teach students about the water cycle and the students talk about their experiences during the Nov. 30, 2018 earthquake.
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- KTVA Weather Lab: Huffman and Trailside Elementary Schools
- Runtime
- 1:07
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- KTVA's Chief Meteorologist Melissa Frey visits Huffman and Trailside Elementary Schools to teach students about winter precipitation.
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- KTVA Weather Lab: Polaris and Chugiak Elementary Schools
- Runtime
- 1:05
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- KTVA's Chief Meteorologist Melissa Frey visits Polaris and Chugiak Elementary Schools to teach students about clouds and the importance of a STEM education.
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- KTVA Weather Lab: O'Malley Elementary students learn about weather balloons
- Runtime
- 1:14
- Date posted
- 7 years ago
- Description
- About 800 weather balloons are sent up to collect weather data each day around the world.
