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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Money is pouring into Alaska’s U.S. Senate race, and it’s not just for the real candidates. // Alaska Public Media’s series of interviews on this year’s gubernatorial candidates features a familiar voice: Bill Walker, who's running again after serving from 2014-2018. // Juneau residents in the glacial outburst flood zone celebrated Thursday as the Mendenhall River crested at a level well below flood stage. // A wildland firefighter from the Northwest Arctic community of Noorvik died Tuesday while fighting a wildfire in Minnesota. // Federal game managers have announced that they’ve temporarily delayed the opening for a part of a popular subsistence caribou hunt in the eastern Interior. -
A very warm weekend is in store for the eastern Interior, due to a high-pressure system that’s parked over the region. -
Residents of the eastern Interior may get this summer’s warmest temperatures this weekend. // The ballot questions that Fairbanks North Star Borough voters will consider this fall could reshape how local elections work in future years. // Our series of interviews with Alaska’s gubernatorial candidates continues today with Republican Matt Heilala, an Anchorage surgeon. // The Alaska Department of Health announced the first round of funding for state projects under the $5 billion Rural Health Transformation Project. // Construction of a long-awaited and controversial road connecting King Cove to Cold Bay in western Alaska may soon get underway. -
U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, Congressman Nick Begich and three Republican gubernatorial candidates aren’t contributing information to a voter guide being compiled by Alaska’s major news organizations. // Alaska Public Media's interviews with leading gubernatorial candidates continues with Republican Shelley Hughes, a longtime legislator from the Mat-Su. // A New York-based child welfare advocacy group has dropped a 4-year-old lawsuit that alleged misconduct in Alaska’s foster care system. // It's official: Fairbanks has been chosen to host the 2028 Arctic Winter Games.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Saturday in voting against Todd Blanche, President Trump’s attorney general nominee. // Former Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson talked about his run for governor with Alaska Public Media state government reporter Eric Stone. // The Arctic Winter Games International Committee has chosen Fairbanks to host the games in 2028. // A New York-based child welfare advocacy group has dropped a 4-year-old lawsuit that alleged misconduct in Alaska’s foster care system. // Thousands of dipnetters from across the state flock to fill their freezers every year with salmon. A University of Alaska economist wonders whether it's worth all the work and expense. -
The Alaska Division of Elections is sending follow-up letters to most of the 3,000 voters it removed from the state's active-voter list advising them how they may be able vote this year. // Alaska lost more of its federal workforce than almost all other U.S. states to sweeping Trump administration job cuts last year, a new report says. // A looming firewood shortage in the Interior has residents and businesses worried that thousands of customers will have to find new sources of dry wood before winter. // The Trump Administration is again threatening cuts to the federal Essential Air Service program, which provides funding for flights to and from rural Alaska. // Alaska Public Media’s Eric Stone talks with former health and revenue commissioner Adam Crum in today’s installment of interviews with this year's top gubernatorial candidates.
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NewsA state workplace-safety agency has begun an investigation into an accident that killed two people last week who were working on a septic-system project in Delta Junction. -
NewsTwo people died Thursday in a construction-site accident in Delta Junction, according to authorities. Alaska State Troopers say 68-year-old Paul Hebert and 71-year-old Jackie Wilder were killed when the 13-foot-deep trench they were working in collapsed. Both victims were residents of Delta. -
Golden Valley Electric Association’s board of directors have approved a new program to help co-op members who’ve fallen behind in their monthly payments. // As of now, every available seat for Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly and School Board will be contested in this year’s municipal election. // In addition to races for governor, Congress, Senate and state Legislature, Alaskans will face a ballot initiative in the Aug. 18 primary.// Lisa Murkowski and two other Republican senators voted Thursday with Democrats to limit President Donald Trump’s war with Iran. But the measure failed by two votes. // A small group of feisty women in Fairbanks recently celebrated the ten-year anniversary of the wrestling team they established.
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Golden Valley Electric Association’s board of directors have given the go-ahead for a new program to help co-op members who’ve fallen behind in their monthly payments to catch up.
