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 state House and Senate will continue to be governed by bipartisan coalitions following Tuesday’s midterm elections. But they’ll have some new leaders.//Denali Borough Mayor Chris Noel was re-elected Tuesday to another three-year term, according to unofficial results,// 91-year-old, Hannah Takak has spent decades helping her community of Shaktoolik to participate in elections. But she’s thinking about retiring.//Almost 50 resolutions were passed at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention in Anchorage last month, including one about Benny Benson, the designer of the Alaska flag. -
It’ll be at least a week before the most competitive races in Tuesday’s election come into focus. // Unofficial election results suggest a slim majority of Alaskans were inclined to keep ranked-choice voting.// As the Iran War pushes oil prices higher, the cost of staying warm is a growing concern for Alaskans who heat their homes with fuel oil. // A state energy regulatory agency OK'd deal that allows Enstar to buy 1.2 billion cubic feet of natural gas for its customers. //Alaska Airlines will launch direct flights from Anchorage to Tokyo next summer, and add nonstop routes to three more U.S. cities. -
Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan has a slight lead over Democrat Mary Peltola in Alaska’s tight U.S. Senate race, according to unofficial results from the Alaska Division of Elections. // Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins has a substantial lead in the race for governor. // Early election results show Alaskans opting to keep ranked choice voting, open primaries and campaign finance rules. // State House and Senate races around the Interior show Frank Tomaszewski handily winning the open District Q seat. // Voters showed up in droves on Tuesday in Delta Junction to cast ballots. And some grumbled about the tsunami of political advertisements they’ve had to endure for the past several months. -
Today is Election Day, Polls will be open 'til 8 tonight, and we'll get some preliminary results beginning around 9. // The head of Alaska’s largest union says the U.S. Justice Department is intimidating the state’s voters with its investigation of the U.S. Senate race. // Political observers disagree about whether ranked-choice voting helps of hinders spoiler candidates on election ballots. // A Yu’pik grandmother has traveled hundreds of miles by snowmachine and boat in remote parts of the state to remind rural Alaskans to vote.
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A U.S. District Judge dismissed a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit Sunday that sought to delay election results if Sen. Dan Sullivan loses Tuesday. // Federal officials announced Friday they're increasing law enforcement assets in Alaska to investigate the state’s U.S. Senate election. // FBI agents this weekend knocked on the doors of people in Petersburg, Sitka, and Juneau who donated to Dan J. Sullivan’s campaign as part of the Justice Department’s investigation into the U.S. Senate race. // Democrat Mary Peltola held a rally in her hometown of Bethel on Sunday, two days ahead of the election in which she hopes to unseat U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan.
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6:30/8:30Former Anchorage mayor and Republican candidate for Alaska governor Dave Bronson says his experience leading the state's largest city puts him ahead of his rivals.// The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new director visited Alaska this week to learn about the state's high tuberculosis rates. // The rising cost of crafting and delivering traditional Alaska Native garments to customers has made it hard for the artisans to make a profit. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy has ordered an investigation into an effort by the Mary Peltola campaign to recruit a same-name challenger to Sen. Dan Sullivan. // The New York Times reporter who broke the story on the same-name challenger says Peltola’s ex-campaign manager was a major source.
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The state of Alaska is asking a judge to dismiss a federal lawsuit that would block election results if U.S. Sen. Dan narrowly loses to Mary Peltola. // Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski made a surprise endorsement Tuesday in the Alaska governor’s race: Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins // A new organization is working to bring the practice of allowing people to die with medical assistance to Alaska. // Polling places in some rural Alaska communities have failed to fully open to voters, more than a week after early voting. // A lawsuit filed last week argues that a planned transfer of state land in the Mat-Su to Alaska's economic development agency is unconstitutional.
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Delta Junction has a new community newspaper called The Buffalo Times. A group of Delta-area residents launched the weekly last month to fill the void left when the Delta Wind abruptly shut down in July. -
The Alaska Federation of Natives kicked off its annual convention in Anchorage Thursday. // Sen. Lisa Murkowski told the AFN convention that high energy prices are this year’s crisis, just as the Halong storm disaster was last year’s. // A Chinook salmon run in Kodiak has become the first test case to determine whether hatcheries can play a part in saving wild salmon. // A photographer, filmmaker and educator from the Y-K Delta has been honored at the Alaska Federation of Natives. // The Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition is hosting an event on Saturday to provide information on how to reduce electricity usage. // Delta Junction has a new community newspaper called The Buffalo Times. The weekly fills a void left when the Delta Wind abruptly shut down in July.
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An Alaska Superior Court judge said last week that the state Division of Elections may have violated the Alaska Constitution’s right to privacy last year. // The U.S. Geological Survey has announced a new, larger estimate of the North Slope's natural gas capacity.// Golden Valley Electric Association has issued a second, smaller Energy Emergency Alert.// Political independent Bill Hill is behind Republican Rep. Nick Begich in the race for a seat in Congress.// Over the next three days, more than 7-thousand delegates are expected to attend the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention in Anchorage.Today's keynote speech will focus on the issue of subsistence.
