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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A federal inspector is investigating a fire that heavily damaged a large conveyor belt at Kinross Alaska’s Fort Knox mine in Fox Tuesday morning. -
A massive oil-drilling rig toppled over Friday and crashed into the frozen tundra near the North Slope. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy introduced a series of bills on Friday and Monday that he says would stabilize the state’s finances. // Crews extinguished a fire early Friday morning that followed an explosion at the Alaska Army National Guard Readiness Center in Fairbanks. // A Superior Court Judge accepted the sentence Monday for a Fairbanks youth pastor convicted of felony child sex abuse. // Musher Pete Kaiser earned a record-setting first-place finish this year in last weekend’s Kuskokwim 300 Sled Dog Race. -
A semi-tractor truck pulling a tanker trailer wrecked Monday on a curvy stretch of the Dalton Highway about 250 miles north of Fairbanks. -
Gov. Mike Dunleavy outlined his agenda for his final year in office in his annual State of the State address. // Alaska lawmakers failed Thursday to override Dunleavy’s veto of a bill that backers said would've modernized Alaska’s corporate income tax system. // Alaska Congressman Nick Begich has a new challenger: Bill Hill, a Bristol Bay fisherman and retired teacher and school administrator. // A draft ordinance proposes a roughly 55% pay raise for the of Fairbanks mayor. // A semi-tractor trailer wrecked Monday on a stretch of the Dalton Highway north of Fairbanks and leaked 14,000 gallons of liquified natural gas // The Trump administration is reviewing the 8A business-contracting program that benefits Alaska Native corporations and tribes. -
A 29-year-old Fairbanks man is being held at Fairbanks Correctional Center on a charge of first-degree murder for the fatal shooting of his grandmother. -
A 29-year-old Fairbanks man is being held at Fairbanks Correctional Center on a first-degree murder charge for fatally shooting his grandmother. // A lawsuit filed this month claims Bible Baptist Church in Fairbanks has created an environment that lets men in positions of power abuse church members. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy says he’ll soon propose a statewide sales tax as part of his larger plan to stabilize the state’s finances. // The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District and a district in southwest Alaska are suing the state for failing to adequately fund public education.
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Two infantry battalions with the Army’s Alaska-based 11th Airborne Division reportedly are on standby for possible deployment to Minnesota. That’s according to reports from NPR and other U.S. and international news outlets. -
Gubernatorial candidate Dave Bronson has picked a Fairbanks man who’s a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and financial adviser to join his ticket. // Health care workers and others are meeting in Anchorage this week for the kickoff of a 5-year, $1.3 billion program to overhaul medical care in rural Alaska. // Fairbanks Native Association is holding a mental health resource fair this weekend intended to help locals stave off the winter blues. // The North Slope village of Anaktuvuk Pass has been short on fuel for about a week, and residents are trying to stay warm in frigid temperatures. // The Alaska Court of Appeals Thursday took up the case of a woman from Whittier who was indicted in 2023 on felony charges of voter misconduct
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Emergency servicesA semi-tractor trailer loaded with explosives slid off a slick stretch of the Alaska Highway Tuesday a couple miles east of Delta Junction. Alaska State Troopers say the explosives didn’t detonate and the driver wasn’t injured. -
Democrat Mary Peltola announced Monday she’s running for U.S. Senate, taking on Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan. // The U.S. Supreme Court has again declined to take up challenges to a federal law that protects subsistence hunting and fishing in Alaska. // Fairbanks North Star Borough Mayor Grier Hopkins is proposing property tax exemptions for new residential construction // The holidays have wrapped up for most of us. But for followers of Russian Orthodox tradition in Alaska, Christmas has just arrived. // Researchers are strapping cameras on to grizzly bears that live above the Arctic Circle to better understand their lives out on the frigid tundra.
