http://www.mail.com/locations/4176-alaska.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/locations/4176-alaska.html http://www.mail.com/news/us/2092436-alaska-man-runs-frozen-lake-to-avoid-jail.html ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — 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 of the ice covering Cheney lake that none of them wanted to venture onto it... Fri, 17 May 2013 05:26:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2092436-alaska-man-runs-frozen-lake-to-avoid-jail.html 2013-05-17T05:26:30Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2092354-alaska-volcano-continues-to-erupt-with-lava-ash.html ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A remote Alaska volcano continues to erupt, spewing lava and ash clouds. The Alaska Volcano Observatory said Thursday a continuous cloud of ash, steam and gas from Pavlof Volcano has been seen 20,000 feet above sea level. The cloud was moving to the southeast Thursday. John Power, the U.S. Geological Survey scientist in charge at ... Fri, 17 May 2013 03:26:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2092354-alaska-volcano-continues-to-erupt-with-lava-ash.html 2013-05-17T03:26:38Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2083752-budget-cuts-pare-real-time-monitoring-volcanoes.html ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Scientists monitoring Alaska's volcanoes have been forced to shut down stations that provide real-time tracking of eruptions and forgo repairs of seismic equipment amid ongoing federal budget cuts — moves that could mean delays in getting vital information to airline pilots and emergency planners. The Alaska Volcano Observatory ca... Tue, 14 May 2013 16:28:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2083752-budget-cuts-pare-real-time-monitoring-volcanoes.html 2013-05-14T16:28:08Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2082854-polar-bear-cub-prepares-york.html ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An orphaned polar bear cub that arrived at the Alaska Zoo two months ago will soon depart for a new adventure: meeting another young cub at the Buffalo Zoo. Kali (KUL'-ee) made his final Alaska zoo appearance Monday. He will be flown by UPS from Anchorage to the company hub in Louisville, Ky., and then New York, with arrival in Bu... Tue, 14 May 2013 02:42:41 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2082854-polar-bear-cub-prepares-york.html 2013-05-14T02:42:41Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2078992-bears-glaciers-pits-man-alaska.html ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Dallas Seavey knows what it's like to mush across the wilds of Alaska. Now it remains to be seen how he survives being dropped off in the middle of that wilderness and navigates his way out without the help of a dog team. Seavey, 26, who became the youngest Iditarod champion ever when he won the 1,000-mile sled dog race across Ala... Sat, 11 May 2013 18:40:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2078992-bears-glaciers-pits-man-alaska.html 2013-05-11T18:40:43Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2068892-critter-cams-provide-peek-lives-bears.html ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Biologists at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game are getting a peek into what city bears do all day. Six bears were equipped with rugged video cameras attached to collars around their necks, which are allowing biologists to get a good idea of how the four black and two brown bears spent their time last summer. Tue, 07 May 2013 17:08:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2068892-critter-cams-provide-peek-lives-bears.html 2013-05-07T17:08:20Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2067846-gun-control-forces-struggle-to-issue-alive.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Gun control forces are targeting Sens. Kelly Ayotte, Max Baucus and others as they struggle to persuade five senators to switch their votes and revive the rejected effort to expand background checks to more firearms buyers. With Congress back from a weeklong recess, the bottom line remains familiar: Advocates of broadened checks lack the... Tue, 07 May 2013 14:15:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2067846-gun-control-forces-struggle-to-issue-alive.html 2013-05-07T14:15:17Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2060354-timber-forest-service-asks-to-return-cash.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service is in the business of preventing fires, not starting them. Yet the agency set off alarms in Congress and state capitols across the West by citing automatic spending cuts as the basis for demanding that dozens of states return $17.9 million in federal subsidies. And it's all come down to a bureaucratic squabble ove... Fri, 03 May 2013 16:48:34 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2060354-timber-forest-service-asks-to-return-cash.html 2013-05-03T16:48:34Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2047124-advocates-eye-legalizing-marijuana-alaska.html JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska, known for its live-and-let-live lifestyle, is poised to become the next battleground in the push to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. The state has a complicated history with the drug, with its highest court ruling nearly 40 years ago that adults have a constitutional right to possess and smoke marijuana for persona... Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:50:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2047124-advocates-eye-legalizing-marijuana-alaska.html 2013-04-26T16:50:09Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2031620-gun-votes-carry-big-risks-dems-rural.html WASHINGTON (AP) — There is little mystery, from a campaign viewpoint, at least, about the eight senators who crossed party lines in Wednesday's showdown vote on background checks for gun buyers. The four Democrats who voted against broader background checks are from largely rural states that voted heavily against President Barack Obama last fall. Three of... Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:29:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2031620-gun-votes-carry-big-risks-dems-rural.html 2013-04-19T18:29:03Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2029666-tale-kind-boston-blasts-viral.html ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Massachusetts woman's Facebook post about the kindness of an Alaska stranger following the Boston Marathon explosions has gone viral. Runner Laura Wellington was nearing the end of the 26-mile race Monday when the two blasts went off near the finish line, where she was planning to meet her family. Police diverted the 25-year-old... Fri, 19 Apr 2013 01:59:49 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2029666-tale-kind-boston-blasts-viral.html 2013-04-19T01:59:49Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2026710-army-climbers-help-recover-body-alaska-glacier.html ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A pair of Army mountaineering experts spent six hours down a 140-foot hole in an Alaska glacier and helped shovel out more than a ton of snow to recover the body of a 9-year-old Fairbanks boy killed when he drove his snowmobile into the opening. The dangerous extraction about 125 miles southeast of Fairbanks went off without a hit... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:05:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2026710-army-climbers-help-recover-body-alaska-glacier.html 2013-04-18T02:05:04Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2022330-senate-plans-background-check-vote-wednesday.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate set a long-awaited vote for Wednesday on a bipartisan plan for expanding background checks to more firearms buyers, with supporters facing a steeply uphill path to victory. By scheduling the roll call, Senate leaders ensured a showdown over the cornerstone of an effort by gun control supporters to tighten firearms laws followi... Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:44:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2022330-senate-plans-background-check-vote-wednesday.html 2013-04-17T00:44:37Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2022174-alaska-based-soldier-16-years-spy-case.html JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska-based military policeman will serve 16 years in prison and will be dishonorably discharged for selling secrets to an FBI undercover agent who he believed was a Russian spy, a panel of eight military members has decided. Spec. William Colton Millay, of Owensboro, Ky., pleaded guilty last month to att... Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:40:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2022174-alaska-based-soldier-16-years-spy-case.html 2013-04-16T11:40:08Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2019928-gun-background-check-deal-jeopardy-senate.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan proposal to expand background checks to more gun buyers seemed in jeopardy Monday as a growing number of Republican senators expressed opposition to the proposal, perhaps enough to derail it. But there was plenty of time for lobbying and deal-making to affect the outcome, and the sponsors seemed willing to consider carving out at least one exem... Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:48:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2019928-gun-background-check-deal-jeopardy-senate.html 2013-04-16T01:48:43Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2019932-alaska-author-wants-to-build-writers-retreat.html ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A best-selling mystery writer from Alaska wants to establish a residency retreat for female writers, hoping to offer women the same help she received more than two decades ago. "It was Dana Stabenow 25 years ago, that's who I want here," said Stabenow, the author of 29 novels, including her best-known works, the Kate Shugak myster... Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:17:34 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2019932-alaska-author-wants-to-build-writers-retreat.html 2013-04-15T08:17:34Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2019692-boy-feared-dead-falling-glacier-crevasse.html FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A 9-year-old boy on a snowmobile is feared dead after falling an estimated 200 feet into a crevasse on an Alaska glacier. Climbers descended into the hole and spotted the snowmobile driven by Shjon Brown of Fairbanks. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (http://bit.ly/117V7nz) reported that the boy was with his father Saturday riding i... Mon, 15 Apr 2013 06:33:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2019692-boy-feared-dead-falling-glacier-crevasse.html 2013-04-15T06:33:40Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2016564-gun-measures-moderate-senate-dems-bind.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's push for tougher gun measures and expanded background checks has placed several moderate Senate Democrats facing re-election next year in a bind, forcing them to take sides on a deeply personal issue for rural voters. The choice: Either they stick with Obama and gun control advocates — and give an opening to cam... Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:42:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2016564-gun-measures-moderate-senate-dems-bind.html 2013-04-12T23:42:11Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2012404-gun-control-bill-clears-hurdle-senate.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress' most serious gun-control effort in years cleared its first hurdle Thursday as the Senate pushed past conservatives' attempted blockade under the teary gaze of families of victims of December's Connecticut school shootings. The bipartisan 68-31 vote rebuffed an effort to keep debate from even starting, giving an early victory — ... Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:53:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2012404-gun-control-bill-clears-hurdle-senate.html 2013-04-11T23:53:28Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2007394-senate-showdown-vote-gun-curbs-set-thursday.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate's top Democrat has set Congress' first showdown vote for Thursday on President Barack Obama's gun control drive as a small but mounting number of Republicans appear willing to buck a conservative effort to prevent debate from even beginning. Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada announced his decision Tuesday as the White Hous... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 01:08:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2007394-senate-showdown-vote-gun-curbs-set-thursday.html 2013-04-10T01:08:26Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/2006704-oregon-police-to-probe-alaska-coach-hit-player.html JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A police department in Oregon will investigate whether an Alaska assistant high school football coach assaulted a player on a school-sponsored team trip to a summer camp last year. Police in Juneau announced Monday they are turning the investigation over to the Gold Beach, Ore., Police Department to determine if a Thunder Mountain Hi... Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:56:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/2006704-oregon-police-to-probe-alaska-coach-hit-player.html 2013-04-09T00:56:55Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2001730-man-prison-life-alaska-officer-deaths.html JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man has been sentenced to prison for life in the 2010 shooting deaths of two Hoonah police officers, in a case that rocked the tiny community and galvanized the state's law enforcement community. State court Judge David George on Friday sentenced John Marvin Jr. to two consecutive sentences of 99 years in the deaths of Hoon... Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:08:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2001730-man-prison-life-alaska-officer-deaths.html 2013-04-05T23:08:21Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1997370-volunteers-prom-special-alaska-students.html SITKA, Alaska (AP) — For girls, proms are all about the dresses. Kayla Wolfe just never imagined what it would take to pick one. First, there was what felt like a million questions. "What kind of dress was I looking for? What size am I? What kind of color? Long or short?" said the 15-year-old freshman at Mount Edgecumbe High School, a state-run boarding s... Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:27:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1997370-volunteers-prom-special-alaska-students.html 2013-04-04T12:27:28Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1996138-obama-to-return-5-percent-salary-to-treasury.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Sharing a bit of budget pain, President Barack Obama will return 5 percent of his salary to the Treasury in a show of solidarity with federal workers smarting from government-wide spending cuts. Obama's decision grew out of a desire to share in the sacrifice that government employees are making, a White House official said Wednesday. Hun... Thu, 04 Apr 2013 02:58:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1996138-obama-to-return-5-percent-salary-to-treasury.html 2013-04-04T02:58:03Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1989918-3-feared-dead-alaska-troopers-copter-crashes.html ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska State Trooper helicopter carrying a trooper, a pilot for the agency and a rescued snowmobiler crashed in the south-central part of the state, leaving all three aboard feared dead, a spokeswoman said Sunday night. Trooper spokeswoman Megan Peters said the aircraft went down Saturday night, the wreckage spotted Sunday, and... Mon, 01 Apr 2013 07:42:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1989918-3-feared-dead-alaska-troopers-copter-crashes.html 2013-04-01T07:42:09Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1987464-alaska-lawmaker-apologizes-racial-slur.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Don Young, the gruff Republican veteran who represents the entire state of Alaska, apologized Friday for referring to Hispanic migrant workers as "wetbacks" in a radio interview. "I apologize for the insensitive term I used during an interview in Ketchikan, Alaska," Young said in a statement after lawmakers from both political parti... Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:54:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1987464-alaska-lawmaker-apologizes-racial-slur.html 2013-03-29T21:54:57Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1969972-senate-panel-endorses-jewell-interior-chief.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Energy Committee on Thursday endorsed President Barack Obama's nomination of Sally Jewell to be Interior secretary, moving her nomination to the Senate floor for an expected vote next month. The committee's 19-3 vote in favor of Jewell came after current Interior Secretary Ken Salazar agreed to review a decision blocking const... Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:08:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1969972-senate-panel-endorses-jewell-interior-chief.html 2013-03-21T17:08:54Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1956566-us-clergy-victims-demands-pope.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Most Roman Catholics are rejoicing at the election of Pope Francis, but alleged victims of clergy abuse in the U.S. are demanding swift and bold actions from the new Jesuit pontiff: Defrock all molester priests and the cardinals who covered up for them, formally apologize, and release all confidential church files. Adding to their distr... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1956566-us-clergy-victims-demands-pope.html 2013-03-15T19:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1955362-iditarod-won-alaska-town-honors-finisher.html NOME, Alaska (AP) — The winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has come under the burled arch in this western Alaska outpost, but that's just the beginning for this community, where every musher to finish the race gets a hero's welcome. The town's sirens blare when each of the more than four dozen competitors is about a mile out, and the mushers are a... Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:27:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1955362-iditarod-won-alaska-town-honors-finisher.html 2013-03-14T21:27:40Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1953340-mushing-limited-age-you-4-legs.html NOME, Alaska (AP) — Last year, the youngest musher ever to win Alaska's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race said his 25-year-old stamina gave him the advantage to get his dogs to the finish line first. Just one year later, Dallas Seavey's own father proved youth doesn't always win out, using careful strategy and an all-out sprint to the finish line to become the... Thu, 14 Mar 2013 07:56:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1953340-mushing-limited-age-you-4-legs.html 2013-03-14T07:56:31Z