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 U.S. Senate tried but failed to pass a funding bill Tuesday night, resulting in a government shutdown today. // An investigation is underway on the source of two fake bomb threats that were emailed Tuesday morning to the University of Alaska Fairbanks. // The Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center may be able to survive federal budget cuts that have forced many other U.S. climate science centers to close. // A Delta Junction woman accused of trying to cover up a deadly 2023 hit-and-run pleaded guilty Monday to two felonies. // Katmai National Park and Preserve's Fat Bear Week has a new champion — a 1,200-pound bear named Chunk. -
NewsSeveral other colleges and universities across the country received similar threats this morning, including in Delaware, Michigan, Texas and Alabama. -
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a $16.7 million dollar grant to begin construction of the first veterans cemetery in the Interior. -
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a $16.7 million dollar grant to begin construction of the first veterans cemetery in the Interior. // A last-minute candidate has filed for the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly seat currently held by Brett Rotermund. // The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly is pushing for the return of a Fairbanks woman being held at an immigration detention center in the Lower 48. // The Alaska LNG Project gained two more agreements this month. The deals are non-binding, but company officials say it shows the project is moving forward. -
The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, dispatched U.S. aircraft Wednesday to intercept four Russian military planes flying in international airspace off Alaska. -
The National Weather Service predicts more rain and cooler temperatures today and possibly snow. // A University of Alaska Fairbanks project to locate critical minerals won a $7.5 million federal grant last year, but UAF hasn’t gotten any of that money. // There's a three-way race for Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly Seat C. // The Alaska Supreme Court has upheld an unprecedented decision by the state chiropractic board to revoke the license of a Fairbanks chiropractor. // A Fairbanks-based environmental organization announced last week it’s pausing programs and furloughing staff due to "serious financial strain."
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This year’s $1,000 Permanent Fund Dividend payments will be sent out beginning Oct. 2. // The League of Women Voters of the Tanana Valley held its annual candidate forum on Friday. Today's report: Borough Assembly candidate Patrick Roach vs. incumbent Barbara Haney. // The U.S. Senate rejected two partisan spending bills Friday, bringing the country closer to an Oct. 1 partial government shutdown. // Sen. Dan Sullivan and the U.S. Secretary of Labor visited the Fairbanks Pipeline Training Center Friday to call for more workers to build the Alaska LNG project. // The U.S. Coast Guard is proposing a two-way shipping route along the northern Alaska coast to handle the growing number of ships in Arctic waters.
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Three small communities in the eastern Interior will hold municipal elections on Oct. 7. And all but two of the seats up for grabs are uncontested -- one in Delta Junction and the other in Eagle. And voters in Nenana also will consider a ballot measure. -
Oil-industry leaders say a renaissance is underway on the North Slope. // The Alaska Legislature last week took a step towards suing Gov. Mike Dunleavy over an executive order he issued last month. // U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan joined fellow Senate Republicans last week to defeat a measure that would've required the release of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. // Alaskans can expect a La Niña climate pattern that could mean it’ll be a cooler-than-average winter. // Mushers will travel 750 miles this coming February in the 2026 Yukon Quest Alaska sled-dog race on a new route that will begin and end in Fairbanks.
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There are 19 total candidates running for 12 seats in municipal elections within the Fairbanks North Star Borough this year, and collectively, their campaigns have raised almost $290,000. // The U.S. Department of Education announced last week that it will cut millions in federal grants for its Alaska Native- and Native Hawaiian-serving program. // The Isberg Recreation Area outside Fairbanks is set to nearly double in size because of a land donation from the Interior Alaska Land Trust. // One of the state's largest Native advocacy organizations says the U.S. Department of Agriculture's plan to reorganize could harm tribal food security programs.
