06-15-18 9:30 .m. newscastTroopers identify pilot who successfully landed damaged airplane after mid-air collision; Wasilla pilot escapes injury, damages plane in crash landing; winds disperse wildfire smoke and despite cool weather, fire-danger persists; Iditarod committee board OKs changes; quirky competitors among diverse field as annual Race to Alaska gets under way; UAF researcher discovers possible factor in Cook Inlet beluga whale population decline.
Tim has worked in the news business for over three decades, 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.