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01-17-25 KUAC MORNING NEWS

KUAC Senior Reporter/Producer Tim Ellis

Friday Jan. 17, 2025 KUAC News stories:

1. Police have identified the man fatally shot in the parking lot of a downtown bar early Wednesday morning.

2. The Fairbanks City Council failed to pass an ordinance Monday to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a city holiday that would’ve given city employees the day off.

3. Alaska will receive more than a million dollars in federal funds to clean up abandoned coal mines across the state. 

4. The 2025 Kuskokwim 300 sled dog race has been pushed back two weeks because of poor snowfall and above-freezing temperatures in western Alaska.

Tim Ellis has been working as a KUAC reporter/producer since 2010. He has more than 30 years experience in broadcast, print and online journalism.