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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Congressman Nick Begich holds a solid lead over independent candidate Bill Hill after last month’s primary election. But Hill thinks he can beat Begich. // A legal group founded by a member of President Donald Trump’s inner circle is suing the state’s judge-nominating body, the Alaska Judicial Council. // The Alaska Judicial Council is recommending that voters don't retain two judges in the Nov. 3 election. // Anchorage Democrat Rep. Andrew Gray has asked Alaska’s attorney general to prosecute former Attorney General Treg Taylor for failing to file financial reports. // Alaska’s commercial salmon season is winding down, and fishermen are thankful they’re getting higher prices for their catch than they’ve seen in decades. // Alaska’s chief investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board retired this week. Clint Johnson spent nearly three decades with NTSB. -
Alaska's public schools are set to receive an additional $115 million in state funding this year from a boost in oil revenues. // President Trump says he’ll make a campaign swing through Alaska, to help incumbent U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan win re-election. // A Seattle startup is developing a microreactor for maritime use, to keep ships at sea longer without refueling. // Federal regulators plan to begin the first formal stage of a major environmental review this month for a proposed mine in the Ambler Mining District. -
Emergency servicesA Black Gold Transport ore-hauling truck wrecked Friday night after it hit a bison on the Alaska Highway about 20 miles southeast of Delta Junction. -
NewsGolden Valley Electric Association’s board of directors voted Tuesday to chug along with a proposal to buy a 60-megawatt generator for an estimated $80 million. The 60 megawatt generator is meant to ensure GVEA will have enough electricity to accommodate increasing demand. -
WildfiresThe Mukluk Fire destroyed 44 homes in Tok over the past week, according to updated figures from the Alaska Division of Forestry and Fire Protection. That’s up from earlier estimates of 20 or more residences and structures razed. -
Voters in Delta Junction and other communities around the state are divided over a general-election ballot question that, if passed, would repeal ranked-choice voting. But the measure also would eliminate open primaries, which some ranked-choice opponents favor. -
Residents of Tok were ordered to evacuate their homes after a wildfire broke out Monday morning. // The final installment in our series of interviews with the top governor candidates features independent candidate Meda DeWitt. // The Get Out the Native Vote effort is working hard this year to improve Election Day turnout by Alaska Natives, which has faded over the past 20 years. // Today is Primary Election Day, and Alaskans have until 8 p.m. to cast votes for governor, U.S. House and Senate, and state House and Senate candidates. // This year's El Niño could bring a stormier winter in western Alaska and elsewhere in the state. // Gardeners and community leaders met last week in the Bering Strait region to learn how to grow food locally.
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Money is pouring into Alaska’s U.S. Senate race, and it’s not just for the real candidates. // Alaska Public Media’s series of interviews on this year’s gubernatorial candidates features a familiar voice: Bill Walker, who's running again after serving from 2014-2018. // Juneau residents in the glacial outburst flood zone celebrated Thursday as the Mendenhall River crested at a level well below flood stage. // A wildland firefighter from the Northwest Arctic community of Noorvik died Tuesday while fighting a wildfire in Minnesota. // Federal game managers have announced that they’ve temporarily delayed the opening for a part of a popular subsistence caribou hunt in the eastern Interior.
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A very warm weekend is in store for the eastern Interior, due to a high-pressure system that’s parked over the region. -
Residents of the eastern Interior may get this summer’s warmest temperatures this weekend. // The ballot questions that Fairbanks North Star Borough voters will consider this fall could reshape how local elections work in future years. // Our series of interviews with Alaska’s gubernatorial candidates continues today with Republican Matt Heilala, an Anchorage surgeon. // The Alaska Department of Health announced the first round of funding for state projects under the $5 billion Rural Health Transformation Project. // Construction of a long-awaited and controversial road connecting King Cove to Cold Bay in western Alaska may soon get underway.
