Tim Ellis
reporter/producerTim has worked in the news business for over three decades as a newspaper reporter and editor and as a radio news reporter/producer. He grew up in a military family and lived in Utah, Hawaii and Kentucky before his family moved to Alaska in 1967, settling in Delta Junction. In 1977, Tim journeyed to the Lower 48 in 1977 to get a college education and see the world. He graduated from Seattle University in 1983 with a degree in journalism and 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 in 2010 and joined the KUAC news staff, where he has since worked as a reporter and producer covering energy and the environment, agriculture/sustainability, transportation, military affairs and rural Interior communities. He lives in Delta Junction with his wife, Mary, and enjoys reading, hiking, fishing and carpentry.
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Fort Greely’s post commander says he’s concerned about a recent spike in reports of COVID-19 locally and in the Fairbanks area. So he’s directing garrison civilian employees who are eligible to begin working from home, effective today. -
A Fairbanks man has been arrested in connection with a fire that destroyed a home in North Pole last week.
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Kinross Gold officials are proposing to divert trucks hauling ore from a mine near Tok away from the Steese Expressway once they begin hauling ore from the mine two years from now.
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Updated: Kinross meetings now accessible by phone, web.| Kinross Gold will hold two public meetings next week to talk about its plans to develop a mine near Tetlin and to haul ore from there by truck to the mill at its Fort Knox mine north of Fairbanks. And opponents of the trucking plan say they’ll voice their concerns about the plans during those meetings.
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The Missile Defense Complex at Fort Greely was evacuated last week and its personnel were ordered to take shelter. But military officials won’t say if those actions were taken because North Korea had test-launched a missile that day.
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The state Department of Transportation plans to build 16 passing lanes next year on the Richardson Highway between Fairbanks and Delta Junction to improve safety and traffic flow. DOT proposed the project mainly in response to Kinross Gold's plans to haul nearly 200 truckloads of ore every day from its mine near Tok to its mill north of Fairbanks. But many of those who live along that 250-mile route say they’re alarmed at such a big increase in truck traffic, and they’re urging Kinross to consider alternatives.
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Recent winter storms have made life difficult for wildlife, especially moose, so they’re coming out of the woods and into human-populated areas to find food and refuge. And some have become aggressive.
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A Delta Junction man pleaded guilty Monday to two federal charges of threatening to kill Alaska’s U.S. Senators.
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Law enforcement officers found an abandoned newborn baby alive in a cardboard box Friday at an intersection on the west side of Fairbanks.
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The winter storm that dumped snow and freezing rain on the Interior over the holiday weekend also caused the roofs of two buildings in Delta Junction to partially collapse Sunday.
