News at 6 - July 21, 2026

The state’s top elections official won’t say how or why she stripped a Senate candidate’s party affiliation from the August primary ballot and is delaying a public records request by Alaska’s News Source to find out. The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review an Alaska bush pilot’s claims that state authorities have tried to illegally seize his $95,000 airplane after a passenger brought beer on a flight bound for a dry village. Two people are dead after a shooting in east Anchorage Tuesday, according to the Anchorage Police Department.