News at 6 - August 19, 2026

Earl Kain doesn’t know that his friend of more than 40 years is trying to help him. She described the 40-year resident of Tok as a “typical Alaska man,” who doesn’t want to ask for help. A woman was shot and killed by an Anchorage police officer Tuesday afternoon in what was described by the city police chief as a crisis negotiation standoff. A brown bear family was euthanized in Eagle River after the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said it broke into a resident’s home.