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 former chief of a Delta Junction-area volunteer fire department pleaded guilty Thursday to defrauding the department of more than $440,000. -
1. Alaska State Troopers say traffic on the Parks Highway was delayed for 10 hours Wednesday when a semi tractor-trailer crashed into a bridge in Cantwell.2. Kinross Alaska has donated a million dollars to establish a charitable fund for grants to help organizations in Upper Tanana Valley communities.3. Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott’s foundation has donated $18 million to Alaska Pacific University.4. Great egrets landed early last month in Unalaska for the first time in recorded history. Biologists suspect Typhoon Halong brought the big birds in.5. A team of scientists has been studying areas around Nome to determine whether beavers are contributing to climate change. -
Fire investigators have found human remains in a house on McCarthy Road that burned down on Christmas Day. // An Alaska scientist participating in a major conference in New Orleans expressed alarm over the impact of federal funding cuts on Arctic research. // Residents of the Mat-Su Borough were blasted again last weekend by hurricane-force winds. // People out on the Aleutian Island of Unalaska were getting hit with even stronger winds than those that battered the Mat-Su. // In Juneau, a winter storm dumped more than two feet of snow and freezing rain on the capital city last weekend. // The state Labor Department is offering unemployment benefits to Alaskans impacted by Typhoon Halong. // Denali National Park and Preserve officials say they’ve opened an area north of the crest of the Alaska Range to snowmachiners. -
Emergency servicesState fire investigators found human remains Saturday in a house on McCarthy Road that burned down on Christmas Day. -
A Fairbanks man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a man last month at a solid-waste transfer site off Farmers Loop Road. // State fire investigators are looking into the cause of a Christmas Day fire that destroyed a home south of Copper Center. One person was injured, another is missing. // Next year’s legislative session begins in less than a month, and lawmakers already have big plans for the year ahead. // The $900 billion defense-policy bill signed into law earlier this month includes special benefits for Alaska-based soldiers and Coast Guard members. // President Trump signed a bill into law on Friday that will give Alaska Native veterans more time to file for their Native allotments. // Nine seismic-monitoring stations in the Aleutian Islands lost federal funding this year and were set to shut down. But last-minute negotiations could keep them operating.
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The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for the Interior that’ll be in effect from tonight through Thursday morning. // The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly's presiding member will continue serving on a board that helps plan hundreds of millions of dollars on local transportation projects. // Representatives of the proposed Donlin Gold mine in western Alaska recently gave a status report on the project to the Bethel City Council. // An investigative reporter says there are many unanswered questions about the proposed pipeline that would transport natural gas hundreds of miles from the North Slope to an export terminal in Cook Inlet.
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Interior Alaska’s cold snap will give way to above-zero temperatures and a snow dump this week before the frigid weather returns. // Alaska’s attorney general is asking Golden Valley Electric Association and a Mat-Su-based electric co-op to revise programs that help nonprofits in their areas. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy is considering a property tax break to promote construction of the Alaska LNG project. // A federal judge has ruled that a Fairbanks man’s civil rights lawsuit against nine state law enforcement officers can continue. // The state Department of Corrections says 18 people have died in custody at the state’s prisons and jails so far this year. That’s tied with 2022 as the two deadliest years for inmates.
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NewsThe United States may soon have an Arctic ambassador again to represent the nation’s interests in the far north. The post has been vacant for nearly a year now. -
The Fairbanks City Council voted down a paramedic-training agreement Monday with city firefighters, who say they’re overwhelmed by too many trainees. // Also Monday, the Council approved an ordinance to establish an Alaska Native land acknowledgement statement at the beginning of regular meetings. // Republican members of the state Senate on Tuesday elected Senator Mike Cronk of Tok as their new minority leader for the upcoming legislative session. // The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its annual Arctic climate report card Tuesday that shows continued record high temperatures in the region. // The Dunleavy administration is threatening insurance companies that are discriminating against oil and gas companies over their environmental practices.
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The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly will consider an ordinance Thursday that would change the name of Pioneer Park back to Alaskaland. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy says he will no longer try to reform the state’s schools during next year’s legislative session. // Sen. Dan Sullivan voted with Democrats last week on legislation to extend health care subsidies that failed to get enough votes. // Two semi-tractor trailers trucks were involved in separate accidents last Friday on the Parks Highway resulting in minor injuries. // Travel industry experts say Alaska is expected to have a strong winter tourism season.
