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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National Democrats are investing in Alaska’s U.S. House race, hoping to unseat Congressman Nick Begich. // An influx of federal funding may help Alaska join an effort by other states to prioritize preventative health care to make people healthier and save money. // The Alaska House has advanced a bill Wednesday that aims to address a lack of oversight for minors undergoing treatment at psychiatric facilities in the state. // The Alaska Aerospace Corporation will work with an Israeli company to launch more payloads into space, possibly at the UAF’s Poker Flat Research Range. // Authorities have charged a man from the village of Central with assault for allegedly shooting a woman in the leg during a domestic dispute. -
The Alaska Senate Finance Committee released its first revision of the state’s operating budget Wednesday that includes a $1,000 Permanent Fund dividend. // Railroad projects in the Interior and Southcentral Alaska got a show of support Wednesday from Alaska lawmakers. // Civil rights advocates are suing the Dunleavy administration for its decision last year to hand over confidential voter data to the federal government. // The Trump administration is proposing steep cuts to the National Park Service. // An oil and gas lease sale is scheduled for June in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. -
Advocates of legislation to raise the age of consent from 16 to 18 hope to get lawmakers to pass the measure this session. // The new planetarium at the University of Alaska Fairbanks will open to the public this Saturday. // An emergency program that delivers boxes of food to struggling Alaskans is set to end this summer. // Two local residents are being held at Fairbanks Correctional Center on charges related to a shooting Sunday at a home on the west side of town. // The Alaska Department of Transportation will temporarily close a Parks Highway bridge near Denali Park later this week and next week for maintenance.
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A budget proposal that would provide $100 million for repairs on schools and state facilities statewide is on its way to a full Senate vote. // The Borough mayor says he’s withdrawn from discussions about leasing the vacant Pearl Creek Elementary building to a charter school. // The Alaska House rejected a Senate effort to levy corporate income taxes on energy producer Hilcorp and other oil and gas companies. // Applications are now open for a summer program that provides food assistance for schoolkids in rural Alaska. // The Alaska Mining Hall of Fame on Thursday will celebrate the birthday of Felix Pedro. His gold strike sparked the 1902 Fairbanks Gold Rush.
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Journalist and author Neil Shea will talk tonight about his travels around the Arctic in a lecture at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He also will talk about a book he wrote about the impact of climate change in the region. -
The Alaska Air National Guard’s 168th Wing now has a dozen aerial-refueling planes, after four more of the tankers arrived at Eielson Air Force Base earlier this month. [Apr1]. And as KUAC’s Tim Ellis reports, the Air Force also plans to assign an additional 200 active-duty servicemembers to the base. -
The Alaska Department of Transportation has opened the Taylor Highway in the eastern Interior. And the department will begin plowing snow next week on another seasonally accessible highway to the west. -
Republican gubernatorial candidate Click Bishop announced his running mate Wednesday at a campaign event in Fairbanks. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed a fast-track budget bill Thursday that provides $450 million for construction projects, disaster relief and wildfire suppression. // State officials are considering a proposal to ask the EPA to regulate air quality in Fairbanks and North Pole separately. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed a fast-track budget bill Thursday that provides $450 million for construction projects, disaster relief and wildfire suppression. // The Alaska Department of Transportation opened the Taylor Highway last week and will begin clearing the Denali Highway next week.
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Law enforcement officers and a SWAT team converged on a middle school in Fairbanks Thursday after getting a report of what officials later determined was false information about gunshots at the school on the north side of town. -
The State of Alaska has finally secured almost $109 million in federal funding to replace two aging bridges on the Alaska Highway.
