Anchorage Daily News

WHEN YOUR SHIP COMES IN, WATCH IT ON THE WEB (Alaska Newspapers): Now you can go online and see where all the ships in the world are - real time. Vessels that carry an automatic identification system transponder can participate in the Marine Traffic Project. Fishing families can even keep track of their loved ones at sea -- though they can't zoom in on them with Google Earth just yet.

MISSING SNOWMACHINE MAY HOLD CLUE TO HOMER MAN'S DEATH (Homer Tribune): For some reason, Bryan Farrow - described as a rugged outdoorsman -- left his snowmachine behind in the Caribou Hills on April 4 and started walking through the snow. His body - dusted with ash from Redoubt Volcano - was found last week, but the snowmachine is still missing. Farrow's friends and family members are still searching, hoping that finding it will help them understand what happened to Farrow. Troopers plan to resume a helicopter search in good weather.

ALASKANS HAVE THEIR SAY ON PEBBLE MINE IN LONDON (AK2UK Blog): Members of a Bristol Bay delegation in London for mine developer Anglo American's shareholders meeting Wednesday have been blogging on their trip. "Many of the shareholders were interested in our story and came to talk to us after the meeting," writes Everett Thompson, a Naknek fisherman. "I told them how serious we are about protecting our way of life: We are not going to back down." The Times of London published an op-ed piece by Everett on Wednesday. Thomas Tilden of Dillingham videotaped a statement while holding an anti-Pebble sign up to traffic on Westminster Bridge, saying he hoped salmon in the Bristol Bay watershed wouldn't suffer the same environmental harm done to salmon in the Thames River. ALSO:

> Anglo American chairman visits Alaska (Anchorage Daily News)

> Fishers' plea for salmon is carried to London (Bristol Bay Times)

WRAPPING UP COVERAGE OF TAX DAY TEA PARTIES IN ALASKA:

> Raw video footage -- KTUU

> Audio -- Alaska Public Radio Network

> Dispatch from the street -- The Alaska Standard

> Photos from the Wasilla rally -- Progressive Alaska

> Rep. Don Young: Socialism is like bad soup -- Alaska Report video via Progressive Alaska blog

> Coverage of Fairbanks rally -- Daily News-Miner

> Coverage of Kenai rally -- Peninsula Clarion

> ADN video and photos

TOLOVANA HOT SPRINGS WORTH THE TREK (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner): In order to get to heaven, sometimes you have to go through hell and back. That's the case with Tolovana Hot Springs, 45 air miles northwest of Fairbanks.

BIKE LANES AHEAD: THE ANCHORAGE BICYCLE PLAN (Anchorage Press): Scott Christy, a 63-year-old rider who considers himself "too young to die," was among cyclists attaching their thoughts and critiques to a map of proposed new bike routes and paths throughout Anchorage on Monday at a public-comment meeting on the Anchorage Bicycle Plan. About 60 people turned out. With photos

FRIENDS, FOES CASH IN ON PALIN (Politico): Gov. Palin has emerged as an almost unparalleled fundraising force, with both foes and fans minting money off the mere mention of her name. The candidates and causes that have climbed aboard the Palin gravy train include, but aren't limited to, abortion rights foes and supporters, environmental groups and political committees supporting both Republican and Democratic candidates. For the most part, Palin herself is an unwitting participant in the burgeoning business.

FOR PALIN, A ROUGH RETURN TO THE DAY JOB (The New York Times): For Gov. Sarah Palin, Republican meteor, getting back to governing [since her vice-presidential campaign] has not been easy.

> Governing not easy for polarizing Palin (AP)

JOHNSTON LAWYER BRISTLES AT DEADBEAT-DAD LABEL (The Associated Press): Levi Johnston's lawyer is bristling at suggestions from Gov. Sarah Palin's family that the 19-year-old is a deadbeat dad.

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Wild in the city: The birds and the bears (Own the Sidewalk)

Two caribou herds see growth while others shrink (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)

Alaska totem pole forgotten in California (The Record, San Joaquin County)

Todd Palin is the man for America now (Esquire)

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