A National Park Service Ranger on a climbing patrol fell into a crevasse Thursday afternoon on Mt. McKinley and has died, according to a National Park Service press release.

Jurors in Anchorage began hearing testimony this week in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Petr Kellner, a Czech billionaire who was among five people killed in a March 2021 heli-skiing helicopter crash near the Knik Glacier.

A federal prisoner serving 20 years in a New York prison and his South Dakota mother are both on Alaska’s August primary ballot — and neither have ever set foot in the state.