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 Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract to clean up PFAS-contaminated soil at Eielson Air Force Base. The chemical used in firefighting foams has been linked to serious health problems. And a longtime Alaska contamination expert is skeptical of the PFAS-cleanup technique that’ll be used at Eielson. -
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The federal Environmental Protection Agency is asking people who live in an area near downtown Fairbanks to participate in a first-of-its kind research project that asks for the public’s help in sampling gases in their homes from soil and groundwater contamination.
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The owners of a Fairbanks-based renewable-energy company propose building what would be the two largest wind farms in Alaska. If they get the go-ahead, they plan to sell power to Golden Valley Electric Association in Fairbanks, and Chugach Electric Association, in Anchorage.
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Activists blocked a road leading into the Nenana Totchaket Agricultural Project for two days earlier this week. Members of Alaska-based Native Movement set up the blockade after work began on a road leading into the ag project, located just west of Nenana. The activists want state officials to reconsider their plans for both the road and ag project.
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Unusual weather has cut Alaska’s hay harvest in half and sent the price of feed soaring, making it difficult for both farmers livestock producers who already were struggling with high fuel and fertilizer prices. State and federal experts are advising Alaska farmers to expect continued unusual weather and they’ve scheduled workshops next month to help farmers plan for the new normal.
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Alaska Air National Guard crews out of Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson rescued six snowmachine riders Monday who were stranded on a glacier in the Eastern Alaska Range near Isabel Pass, just north of Paxson.
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The state is calling its first sale of potential farmland west of Nenana a success. The Department of Natural Resources, or DNR, auctioned more than 2,000 acres in the Nenana Totchaket Agricultural Project and is planning a second sale. But some area residents say the state is moving too quickly to develop the ag project.
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Two Eielson-based F-16 fighter jets intercepted a pair of Russian bombers in international airspace off Alaska earlier this week.
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Delta Junction city officials are trying to find a way to maintain ambulance service after the present contract expires next year. But costs are rising and funding is limited, and some area residents say they don’t want to pay taxes to support the service.
