Tim Ellis

FM News Reporter & On-Call Host
  • JR Ancheta/University of Alaska Fairbanks

Tim has worked in the news business for nearly 30 years, mainly as a newspaper reporter and editor in southern Arizona. Tim first came to Alaska with his family in 1967, and grew up in Delta Junction before emigrating to the Lower 48 in 1977 to get a college education and see the world.

After graduating from Seattle University in 1983 with a degree in journalism, he relocated to southern Arizona, where he spent most of the next 25 years working as a print, broadcast and online journalist. He returned to Alaska – and radio – in 2010, when he was hired as a reporter/FM announcer for KUAC.

He now lives in Delta with his wife, Mary, and enjoys reading, woodworking, and hiking.

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Feds Give Fairbanks International Grant to Promote Nonstop Flights to L.A., Phoenix

By • Jul 13, 2018
Fairbanks International Airport

The federal Department of Transportation has awarded a $750,000 grant to Fairbanks International Airport to add incentive to an air carrier to launch and promote new non-stop service from Fairbanks to Los Angeles or Phoenix – or possibly both.

City Council Delays Vote on New Firefighters’ Union Contract to Enable More Negotiations

By • Jul 10, 2018
Fairbanks Fire Fighters Union

The Fairbanks City Council narrowly voted Monday to postpone final consideration of a new three-year contract with the Fairbanks Fire Fighters union local.

GVEA Restarts Healy 2, Sees Full Coal-fired Operation ‘In The Not-too-distant Future’

By • Jul 3, 2018
KUAC file photo

Updated: Golden Valley Electric Association restarted and operated the boiler of its coal-fired Healy 2 powerplant for several hours during a test run Monday. The test re-firings resumed Thursday and will continue through August, when Golden Valley hopes to make the 50-megawatt plant fully operational.

Defense Secretary Affirms Alaska’s Role in Homeland Defense, Pacific and Arctic Regions

By • Jun 26, 2018
Tim Ellis/KUAC

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says the U.S. military increasingly relies on Alaska, both to provide a base of operations to maintaining dominance of the Indian and Pacific oceans to the south and to enable the Coast Guard and Navy to maintain control of U.S. Arctic waters, to the north. Mattis spoke at a news conference this morning at Eielson Air Force Base.


Smokejumpers, Air Tankers Slow Wildfire Near Top of the World Highway border crossing

By • Jun 22, 2018
yukoninfo.com

Smokejumpers have fought a 25-acre wildfire near the Alaska-Canada border to a standstill after being called in Thursday because it appeared to be headed straight toward a remote border-crossing station.

Corps of Engineers Halts Cleanup after Workers Discover Buried DDT-tainted Junk

By • Jun 22, 2018
Alaska Department of Natural Resources

The Army Corps of Engineers last fall halted cleanup of fuel-tainted soil near Birch Lake, about 60 miles south of Fairbanks, when workers uncovered buried junk that included barrels with residues of a different contaminant – the banned pesticides DDT and chlordane


06-22-18 KUAC MORNING NEWSCAST

By • Jun 22, 2018


06-21-18 KUAC MORNING NEWCAST

By • Jun 21, 2018


Firefighters Scramble to Contain Wildfire Sparked by Smoldering Coal-seam Fires

By • Jun 21, 2018
Alaska Division of Forestry

State Forestry firefighters are working to contain a fast-growing wildfire near Healy that was ignited by two smoldering fires burning in coal deposits at the surface that merged together.

IGU Completes Pentex Purchase, OKs AIDEA Pledge to Resolve Disputes with Mediation

By • Jun 19, 2018
Fairbanks Economic Development Corp.

The Interior Gas Utility has completed its nearly $60 million purchase of Pentex Alaska and its subsidiary, Fairbanks Natural Gas. The IGU board of directors last week approved the purchase, as did the board of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, or AIDEA, which until last week owned Pentex and its natural-gas liquification plant at Point MacKenzie.

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