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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It’s Veterans Day, but Salcha’s American Legion post won’t be conducting its own service – at least, not this year. That’s because it’s Alaska’s newest Legion post, established just over a year ago. -
A Fairbanks woman is grateful to be home with her family for the holidays, after spending a month in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center. // Alaska’s newest American Legion post in Salcha will observe Veterans Day along with other local military service organizations. // The state of Alaska is reducing its payments to SNAP recipients by about a third this week, in response to federal guidance. // Kodiak-based Alaska Aerospace Corporation is partnering with the UAF Geophysical Institute to expand their statewide capabilities and space missions. // Nine puppies found abandoned in a crate at the Fox transfer site last week were all adopted by new families in a single day. -
Cuts in federal SNAP benefits program have made it harder for Alaskans who already are struggling with high food prices. // Six mushers signed-up Saturday for the 2026 Yukon Quest Alaska sled dog race, which begins and ends in Fairbanks in February. // The Alaska Supreme Court has ordered disgraced former U.S. District Court Judge Joshua Kindred to be disbarred for inappropriate relationships he had with two federal prosecutors. // The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation may soon regulate the state's hazardous wastes if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency authorizes it. -
The Army Corps of Engineers and its contractors have demolished the building that housed an old nuclear power plant on Fort Greely as part of the decommissioning process for the facility. They’re now preparing to remove highly radioactive materials from the site. -
Representatives of four Alaska-based organizations will present a film and discussion this evening in Fairbanks about PFAS contamination in communities around Alaska – and worldwide. -
EPA officials said last week that Alaska’s revised plan to improve Fairbanks and North Pole air quality is good to go. // People who rely on food assistance from SNAP could have their electronic benefits cards refilled as soon as this week. // Alaska’s economic development and finance corporation is committing another $50 million to the controversial Ambler Road Project. // Four soldiers were injured Monday when the vehicles they were in slid off the road on a slippery stretch of the Richardson Highway near Birch Lake. // A new album from the Wasilla-based band Portugal. The Man is on the way. And the project has elements of Alaska culture throughout.
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The nearly 70,000 Alaskans who depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program likely did not see their monthly benefits hit their accounts Saturday as scheduled. // Polls show that former Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola is about even in a head-to-head matchup with Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan. // A series of public workshops about updating the Fairbanks North Star Borough’s Comprehensive Plan will be held this week. // The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently canceled its contract with the Alaska Earthquake Center at UAF. That could mean less timely and accurate tsunami warnings.
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Two members of the Denali Borough Assembly and two district school board incumbents are asking voters to allow them to hold on to their seats in Tuesday’s local election. -
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will hold two meetings next week to present a progress report on the demolition and decommissioning of an old nuclear power plant on Fort Greely. -
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