News at 6 - June 3, 2026

Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, is accusing Democrat Mary Peltola of ‘rigging’ the Senate race by recruiting a Petersburg man with the same name to confuse Alaska voters — and now the national Republican Party is demanding that identical-name candidate be thrown off the ballot. The Peltola campaign denies any involvement. A man with connections to what prosecutors have described as one of the largest drug trafficking enterprises in Alaska history was sentenced Wednesday in federal court to 24 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. A KTUU effort to raise funds and awareness for childhood hunger has wrapped up for the month of May.