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• Alaska volcano's ash prompts flight cancellations

  -- An Alaska volcano eruption is prompting regional airlines to cancel flights to nearby communities, including a town that reported traces of fallen ash.Pavlof Volcano released ash plumes as high as 22,000 feet over the weekend, according to the Alaska Volcano 5/20/13 Read more »

• Alaska man runs onto frozen lake to avoid jail

  -- Anchorage police say a young man who didn't want to return to jail ran out onto the uncertain ice of an Alaska lake to escape officers armed with an arrest warrant.Police spokeswoman Dani Myren says officers were sufficiently concerned about the thickness   Read more »

• Polar bear cub orphaned in Alaska at Buffalo zoo

  rode it back into Point Lay and then got hold of U.S. Fish and Wildlife," said Patrick Lampi, executive director of the Alaska Zoo, which has cared for the bear since.Subsistence hunting is allowed in the area, but hunters aren't allowed to shoot females with   Read more »

• Critter cams provide peek into the lives of bears

  without the person ever knowing it was there."The more we know about bears here in urban areas the better we are at managing them," said Fish and Game wildlife biologist Jessy Coltrane.___Information from: Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News, http://www.adn.com   Read more »

• Native corporation launches tourism service

  -- An Alaska Native village corporation that operates a popular cruise ship destination has launched a commercial consulting service for others seeking help developing their own cultural tourism ventures.Huna Totem Corp. opened Alaska Native Voices on Wednesday.   Read more »

Around the web

• Livingston Taylor talks about record industry, new songs ahead of Ark show

  previous ones, will be a sonically layered, textured endeavor, with electric guitar, drums, and keyboards, at the very least. “Last Alaska Moon” also featured strings and complex, orchestrated arrangements. “I’ve always been interested in making good pop records,” 7:19 AM from MLive.com Read more »

• Parnell to sign oil tax bill, budgets

  Sean Parnell is scheduled to sign into law an overhaul of Alaska's oil tax structure on Tuesday. Opponents are planning a protest at the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage, where Parnell also is expected to sign legislation aimed at advancing an in-state natural 7:17 AM from Enquirer Herald Read more »

• Sarah Palin disproves climate change as it snowed in Alaska in May

  Palin has made this blunder in the past too, suggesting that local atmospheric conditions over short periods of time and small areas have bearing on larger trends averaged over long time periods and greater areas, the report added. (ANI) 6:41 AM from Sify Read more »

• Alaska governor seeks to measure oil in refuge - Tue, 21 May 2013 PST

  Wilderness League, said in a statement responding to Parnell’s exploration proposal. But a lobbying group pushing for expanded Alaskan oil and gas development, Arctic Power, said a large number of Americans want to access a potentially significant pool of 3:12 AM from The Spokesman  Read more »

• Derby Telegraph published Alaska's the place to dive this summer

  some fabulous locations right around the world, from New Zealand and South Africa to Egypt and the Caribbean. "The waters off Alaska are pretty chilly whatever time of year you choose to dive but that doesn't bother me. I prefer dry-suits and colder-clime 2:28 AM from Derby Telegraph Read more »