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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UPDATE: The North American Air Defense Command, or NORAD, detected and tracked a Russian military surveillance plane Wednesday that was flying through international airspace off the coast of Alaska. -
The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities will host two meetings today to talk about the agency’s study of airports in and around the Denali Borough. The study is being done to determine which of the eight existing airports should be improved to best serve the needs of the borough’s pilots and public. -
Former state senator Tom Begich is running for governor. // State and federal officials gathered at Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage last week to promote investments in Alaska aviation safety. // A Fairbanks jury found 22-year-old Kapri Raymond Willis not guilty last week of first-degree murder and witness tampering. // North Pole's City Council postponed voting Monday on an ordinance that would prevent people from accepting money from vehicles on city streets. // U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials last week arrested and held a man with no criminal conviction. // Regional air carrier Ravn Alaska announced Thursday that it was shutting down. -
A semi-tractor trailer that hauls gold ore hit the ditch Sunday after the driver lost control of the rig near milepost 1402 Alaska Highway, about 20 miles south of Delta Junction. -
President Trump and Russian President Putin met Friday on Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson in Anchorage to talk about Russia’s war against Ukraine. // Alaskans who came out to rallies for and against the Trump-Putin meeting had a lot to say about it. // Military officials on Friday scaled down a big training exercise they’re holding this month to avoid disrupting the Trump-Putin meeting // Local plumber J.T. McComas-Roe says he’s reviving his campaign for Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly. // A semi-tractor trailer that hauls gold ore hit the ditch Sunday after the driver lost control of the rig near mile 1402 Alaska Highway, about 20 miles south of Delta Junction. -
Thousands of U.S. and allied servicemembers, along with aircraft, naval vessels and other equipment, began a large military training exercise Thursday around Alaska and in areas offshore. Northern Edge 2025 is one of two exercises now under way in Alaska. -
Alaska Fish and Game personnel killed two young Dall Sheep last week near Salcha, because the animals may have been exposed to a pathogen that could endanger the state’s declining Dall sheep population. -
Alaska has finally regained the jobs it lost during the pandemic, according to a new report from the Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development. // A Fairbanks woman who worked at Denali State Bank is suing the financial institution in federal court over claims of sex-based discrimination and retaliation. // The U.S. Coast Guard officially added the first icebreaker to its fleet in more than 25 years. The Cutter Storis was commissioned Sunday in a ceremony in Juneau, its future home port. // A massive tsunami ripped through a fjord near Juneau early Sunday morning. Scientists say it was set off by a huge landslide. // A science journal recently published a study that found roads can significantly alter caribou behavior and delay their migrations for weeks.
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President Donald Trump says he’ll meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin this Friday in Alaska to discuss a deal for ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. // Searchers on Saturday found the body of an Alaska Native man in Fairbanks who’d been missing since Wednesday. // Hunters from the North Slope community of Point Lay will collaborate with a UAF anthropologist from Russia this summer, to document traditional knowledge about walruses. // Alaska will get $6.7 million from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to clean up contaminated sites on land owned by Alaska Native corporations and villages. // U.S. Coast Guard officials said Friday they were monitoring two Chinese research ships transiting through American waters in the Bering Sea. // More than 2,000 people bought tickets to the first Midnight Sun Scottish Highland Games on Saturday at the Mushers Hall on Farmers Loop Road in Fairbanks.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski did not rule out running for governor during a Monday news conference in Anchorage. // Fairbanks researchers recently successfully tested the feasibility of a system that stores heat in the ground in summer for use during winter. // A lack of reliable housing and other infrastructure leads to health and economic problems for kids in rural Alaska, according to panelists at a conference last week in Anchorage. //Wildfire season has slowed, but not ended. Warm, dry weather over the weekend created conditions in an area about 120 miles northeast of Fairbanks that've led to an uptick in fire activity there.
