News at 6 - June 8, 2026

Jurors entered the second week of a wrongful death trial Monday over a March 2021 heli-ski crash near the Knik Glacier that killed Czech billionaire Petr Kellner and four others, with dueling testimony focused on whether operators failed to launch an emergency response quickly enough — and whether those alleged failures violated rules or merely fell short of industry best practices. In the last three weeks, ENSTAR reports 10 gas meters have been tampered with, including one Monday morning outside the Natural Pantry grocery store in midtown when a passerby reported smelling gas. Candidates running against Rep. Frank Tomaszewski, R-Fairbanks, and his wife Harmony Tomaszewski are calling Sen. Robert Myers’s last-minute retirement and the family succession that followed “political maneuvering” — while the Tomaszewskis have not responded to Alaska’s News Source’s repeated requests for comment.