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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Pentagon officials have revived a proposal to develop a small nuclear power plant on Eielson Air Force Base. -
Officials with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute and Alaska Aerospace Corporation announced a wide-ranging agreement Tuesday to tap into the growing market for rocket launches from the state’s two launch facilities. -
Emergency servicesDenali National Park and Preserve rangers recovered the body of a ski mountaineer Wednesday who fell to his death off a steep slope of the mountain earlier this week. -
Denali National Park rangers recovered the body of a mountaineer Wednesday who fell to his death on the mountain on Monday. // Sen. Lisa Murkowski told the Commerce secretary Wednesday she’s concerned about the impact of staff and budget cuts on Alaska. // Alaska school districts are recruiting hundreds of Filipino teachers to fill a shortage of local applicants. // A 6,000-acre wildfire in northeastern British Columbia is disrupting traffic on the Alaska Highway. -
Emergency servicesBad weather has halted a search for a 41-year-old mountaineer who’s missing after falling Monday off Denali's West Buttress. -
Aircraft maintenance crews from Alaska and South Korea have repaired a U.S. F-16 fighter jet that made an emergency landing last week on a remote island in the Bering Sea. The jet flew out of St. Paul Island Thursday en route to Eielson Air Force Base. -
1. Explore Fairbanks's CEO says the Interior's tourism industry had a banner year in 2024. But 2025 may be a different story. // 2. A court has ordered the the regulator of Alaska's school sports to re-evaluate Monroe Catholic High School’s boys basketball team's Class 4A classification. // 3. The National Weather Service is predicting rain and unseasonably chilly weather on Friday night across the Interior. // 4. Investigators say a Tok man apparently fatally shot himself last weekend while he was bear hunting off the Taylor Highway.
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Two South Korea-based U.S. fighter jets en route to Eielson Air Force Base made an emergency landing Monday on a remote island in the Bering Sea. -
1. Alaska lawmakers passed 33 bills the session that ended Tuesday, including a budget with a $1,000 Permanent Fund dividend and a long-term funding boost for the state’s public schools. // 2. More than a hundred Ukrainians who settled in Delta Junction since Russia invaded their country three years ago. face a uncertain future in the community. // 3. The Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board passed a five-year strategic plan Tuesday night that includes guidelines for developing district policies.
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1. The Fairbanks City Council on Monday rejected an ordinance that would add a statement during council meetings that affirms indigenous peoples' long history on this land. // 2. Alaska lawmakers on Tuesday voted to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of an education funding bill.
