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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Eielson Air Force Base officials say they’re expecting around 10,000 people to show up next week on both August 1st and 2nd during the Arctic Lightnin Air Show and Open House. Organizers say some events will require temporary closures of the Richardson Highway. -
Alaska State Troopers say a North Slope Borough Police officer fatally shot an Utqiagvik (OOK-kee-ah-vik) man Wednesday. // The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly passed a measure Thursday that guarantees the Carlson Center will remain the home ice of the UAF hockey team. // Hundreds of seismic stations across that Alaska detect earthquakes may soon be used to also identify landslides. // The U.S. Coast Guard tracked Chinese vessels traveling through a section of international waters in the Bering Sea earlier this month for the first time this year. // Alaska’s main Native healthcare organization is set to receive a $400 million settlement from the federal government for unpaid medical services expenses. // Eielson Air Force Base officials say they’re expecting around 10,000 people to show up next weekend during the Arctic Lightning Air Show and Open House. -
Alaska Airlines canceled 10 flights statewide Wednesday because of ash drifting over the state from an erupting volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. -
Alaska Airlines canceled 10 flights statewide Wednesday because of volcanic ash drifting over the state. // The Alaska Division of Elections has moved thousands of registered voters to its “inactive” list, due to suspicion that they are not citizens. // Fairbanks Police have learned the identity of a bicyclist involved in a fatal collision last weekend. But they're not revealing the suspect's name. // The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has announced an emergency permit hunt for Alaskans to harvest muskoxen stranded on an island in the Bering Sea. // KUAC's Patrick Gilchrist recaps the 65th annual World Eskimo-Indian Olympics with Fairbanks Daily News-Miner sports reporter Drew Blouin // Support staff at the remote Toolik Field Station work behind the scenes to keep the research facility 400 miles north of Fairbanks running smoothly. -
EducationDelta Junction Library Director Tiki Levinson has been honored by the Alaska Center for the Book for her efforts to promote literacy in the community. The Center selected Levinson as one of the 2026 recipients of its Contributions to Literacy awards. -
Residents of southcentral Alaska are facing possible shortages of natural gas. // An Anchorage Democrat and Big Lake Republican debate how Alaska can get the maximum benefit from its resources. // Processors are paying more for commercial salmon this season than in recent years, because of activity in international markets. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy has set a record for the most vetoes by an Alaska governor during a legislative term. // A new state law authorizes pharmacists to provide different kinds of care to Alaskans.
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A measure to repeal Alaska’s ranked choice voting will be on the ballot again this November. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a bill Thursday that would've reimposed limits on state-election campaign contributions. // The ex-chief of a Delta Junction-area volunteer fire department was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison for stealing $440,000 dollars from the organization. //An false AI-generated story of a beluga whale escaping Seward's Alaska SeaLife Center got millions of views on social media last month. -
Preliminary work on Interior Alaska’s new veterans cemetery began early last month, after years of effort to locate land and obtain funding for a state cemetery in the Interior. But the project is now officially underway, since a groundbreaking ceremony was held at the site in Salcha on June 20. -
Alaska is hosting dozens of celebrations of America’s 250th anniversary. Those include a weeklong series of events in several communities around the state recognizing the history of baseball in the Last Frontier. -
Fairbanks Police on Wednesday identified three officers involved in the fatal shooting of a man last weekend at the Bentley Mall. // Alaska lawmakers failed to meet an informal deadline Wednesday to vote on legislation that would reduce taxes for the Alaska LNG project. // Alaska is hosting dozens of celebrations of America’s 250th anniversary this week, including a series of events recognizing the history of baseball in the Last Frontier.
