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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Members of an Anchorage-based church and others around the state have begun helping hundreds of Ukrainians flee their war-torn nation and relocate to Alaska. The churches’ relief program has inspired officials with the Rasmuson Foundation and other organizations and businesses to donate to the cause. -
Now that last winter’s heavy snowpack is finally melting away, wildlife biologists in the eastern Interior are getting a better idea of how many moose and bison starved to death, because of the lack of forage. Meanwhile, several area residents are trying to get rid of the carcasses of winter kills that until now have been covered up by the snow.
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A committee that will help study Kinross Gold’s controversial plan to haul ore from a gold mine in Tetlin to the mill near Fairbanks met for the first time Monday. The diverse panel formed by the state Department of Transportation will represent the concerns and interests of communities and agencies along the 240-mile route.
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The state Department of Transportation temporarily closed the Mitchell Expressway bridge on the city’s east side over the weekend night, along with a stretch of South Cushman Street, so contractors can repair the structure that was damaged last winter by an oversize load colliding with the structure.
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Golden Valley Electric Association has scheduled two public meetings for later this month to talk about the future of its Healy 1 coal-fired power plant. The co-op is weighing whether to shut down the aging facility or install a $30 million emissions-control system on it.
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Golden Valley Electric Association has responded to an offer by a Massachusetts-based company to generate up to 38 megawatts for the co-op, using wind and solar power.
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The state Department of Transportation is studying the condition of small airports in the Upper Tanana region to determine what improvements are needed. And the head of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association in Alaska says work is badly needed at airports in Tanacross, Tok and Northway.
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Golden Valley Electric Association is reviewing a proposal by a Massachusetts-based company to generate up to 36 megawatts of electricity using wind and solar power, backed-up by a large battery system.
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After two slow years, ticket sales for this year’s Nenana Ice Classic have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels. Manager Cherrie Forness says the event got a big boost last month from comedian John Oliver, who produced a hilarious spoof of the annual ice-breakup guessing game for his weekly program on HBO.
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A federal judge sentenced a Delta Junction man to prison Friday for threatening to murder Alaska’s two U.S. senators.
