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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State and federal law enforcement officers on Wednesday captured a North Pole man wanted for the fatal shooting of a teenager near Fairbanks in October. -
State and federal law enforcement officers have captured a North Pole man wanted for the fatal shooting of a teenager in October. // A Fairbanks grand jury has indicted an Anchorage woman on charges of murder and assault related to a fatal shooting at Chena Pump Road home. // Transportation planners presented some findings of a summer-long survey Wednesday about bike lanes set up on two streets in downtown Fairbanks. // A federal laboratory devoted to renewable energy development for the past half century has had the word “renewable” stripped from its name. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy has OK'd a Defense Department request for Alaska National Guard members to assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Anchorage. // Alaska sees the largest seasonal employment swing of any state, according to new data from the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development -
A program celebrating Alaska’s storytelling tradition will debut this afternoon (12/3) on social media, YouTube and the PBS website. It’s part of a PBS series that examines the literary legacy of all 50 states. -
Emergency servicesState Department of Public Safety investigators have concluded that an elderly Valdez woman who’d been missing since early last month died in a Nov. 12 fire in Glennallen. -
The state is moving ahead on repealing a regulation that critics said would’ve complicated Fairbanks-area real estate transactions. // A union-organizing campaign is underway among ConocoPhillips workers on the North Slope. // Aleutian Airways has begun providing federally subsidized air service to three Western Alaska communities. // National mining and pro-business groups are trying to convince the federal government to again consider allowing companies to develop the Pebble mine. -
UPDATED Nov. 30: Alaska State Troopers are investigating whether a missing Valdez woman might have been staying at the Caribou Hotel in Glennallen when it burned down on Nov. 12th. -
Organizers of Delta Junction’s annual community Thanksgiving dinner have been working for months to prepare for Thursday’s big get-together. The celebration comes with an additional challenge: they’re anticipating a bigger turnout this year. -
Alaska’s Department of Public Safety is funneling resources to Fairbanks in response to a spike in violent crimes. // A federal grand jury returned an indictment last week charging a Fairbanks man with illegally trafficking firearms and drug-related offenses. // Thousands of Alaskans who rely on the federal marketplace for health insurance are experiencing sticker shock as they apply for coverage for 2026. // An Alaska Marine Lines barge that was headed to Alaska was taking on water off the coast of British Columbia
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UPDATED: The Alaska Bureau of Investigation is looking into two incidents involving shots fired at two Black Gold Transport ore-hauling trucks late last week near Fairbanks. -
Alaska State Troopers have redoubled their efforts to locate a North Pole man charged with murder. The charges stem from the fatal shooting of teenager at a party near Fairbanks last month. Meanwhile, a court has issued an arrest for the warrant of Darius Morgan, and set bail at a million dollars.
