News at 6 - June 9, 2026

A new policy in the Mat-Su Borough School District would allow select staff the option to carry concealed handguns on campus. As Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom, R-Alaska, investigates a Petersburg Republican U.S. Senate candidate who shares a name with Alaska’s incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan — warning that his sworn filing could carry perjury implications — Petersburg’s Dan Sullivan has not responded for 11 days to Alaska’s News Source request for comment, despite initially agreeing to speak on the record Tuesday. An 18-year-old Kodiak teen charged as an adult in connection with a 2024 beach bonfire explosion that injured multiple teenagers had an omnibus hearing Tuesday in Kodiak.