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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The Incident command team that’s overseeing firefighting operations for the Nenana Ridge Complex gave a briefing Tuesday to residents of the community. // A lightning-sparked wildfire that has burned about 2,000 acres of Arctic Alaska tundra is the biggest wildfire on the North Slope in eight years. // Two Nenana women will spend a year in jail for defrauding their elderly neighbor out of her home in 2019. // An Alaskan tribe wants to celebrate Benny Benson, a young Native who created the design of the state's flag nearly a hundred years ago -- despite the racial prejudice that he endured as a child. -
Scattered rain and cooler weather are helping firefighters protect homes and infrastructure from wildfires in the Interior. // Both sides have settled in a lawsuit claiming police used unnecessary SWAT-style force on a Fairbanks man who was experiencing a mental health crisis. // Alaska lawmakers plan to compel Gov. Mike Dunleavy's administration to release data on oil taxes by using the Legislature’s subpoena power.
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The global space-launch industry is welcoming the prospect of launching rockets from Alaska’s two spaceports to relieve the backlog at larger facilities in the Lower 48. Top officials with Alaska’s two civilian launch facilities say their new partnership also will promote development of Alaska’s space-launch industry. -
A lot of eyes were on Sen. Lisa Murkowski Monday night, as the U.S. Senate voted on dozens of amendments to the budget reconciliation package. //The National Weather Service has issued a fire weather watch for Wednesday in response to a forecast of high temperatures, low humidity and winds that could fan the flames of wildfire. // Multiple class action lawsuits recently filed in federal court claim a Fairbanks-based Alaska Native Corporation failed to protect personal data from a cyberattack. // Experts predict that sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay this summer will be bigger and heavier than last year’s run.
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A U.S. Air Force servicemember died over the weekend following a kayaking accident on a section of the Chena River that runs through Fairbanks. // Firefighters continued working through the weekend around the Interior to protect communities at risk of wildfires. // Fairbanks residents could soon start living on the ground floor of buildings in the most densely developed part of the city. / The U.S. Senate is still working on the Republican megabill containing tax cuts and President Trump’s other priorities. And they're trying to woo Sen. Lisa Murkowski into supporting the bill.
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The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District board passed a budget for the coming year Tuesday that relies on state lawmakers to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto. // Cold, wet weather has slowed the wildfires that've been raging in the Interior since late last week. But fires threatening areas around the Interior are nowhere near extinguished. // A new law that goes into effect next week boosts Alaska's minimum wage and requires paid sick leave. But many business leaders don’t know the law's rules. // A Talkeetna man who was driving his ATV on a stretch of railroad track Monday was killed when he was struck by a northbound freight train near Montana Creek.
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Sunny skies and warm temperatures are in the offing this weekend, giving residents of the Interior an ideal opportunity to celebrate under the midnight sun. -
Firefighters scrambled Wednesday to attack several new lightning-sparked wildfires burning around the eastern Interior. // A state official is concerned that Alaska may fail to meet grant-match requirements and lose $600 million in federal funds for transportation projects. // A Fairbanks playwright and theater director is hosting a public reading of a new play tonight (Thursday) to celebrate Juneteenth.
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Tuesday’s dry-lightning thunderstorms sparked dozens of wildfires around the Interior, including two fires in the Fairbanks area. // Teachers in Fairbanks held a rally Tuesday to protest Governor Mike Dunleavy’s veto last week of a bill that would’ve boosted funding for education. //The field of candidates for Alaska governor grew to four last week, after Matanuska-Susitna Borough Mayor Edna DeVries filed a letter of intent saying she’s considering a run.
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WildfiresThis year’s fire season started slowly due to cool and rainy weather, but it roared to life last week with near-record heat and Red Flag warnings in effect around the Interior and elsewhere in the state.
