News at 6 - July 23, 2026

Strong winds in the Anchorage area took out trees and were responsible for multiple power outages on Thursday. Several trees were reported down in the Turnagain neighborhood. A Sand Lake resident who woke to find a huge tree on her front lawn was advertising free firewood for anyone willing to bring a chainsaw and cut it themselves. An Alaska elections official put his hands on a KTUU photojournalist’s camera and refused to explain why as a reporter pressed the division on why a U.S. Senate candidate’s party was stripped from the ballot. A 21-year-old woman accused of shooting a man outside an Anchorage elementary school during an early-morning meet-up arranged on Facebook Dating made her first court appearance Thursday on felony assault and robbery charges.