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 budget proposal that would provide $100 million for repairs on schools and state facilities statewide is on its way to a full Senate vote. // The Borough mayor says he’s withdrawn from discussions about leasing the vacant Pearl Creek Elementary building to a charter school. // The Alaska House rejected a Senate effort to levy corporate income taxes on energy producer Hilcorp and other oil and gas companies. // Applications are now open for a summer program that provides food assistance for schoolkids in rural Alaska. // The Alaska Mining Hall of Fame on Thursday will celebrate the birthday of Felix Pedro. His gold strike sparked the 1902 Fairbanks Gold Rush. -
Journalist and author Neil Shea will talk tonight about his travels around the Arctic in a lecture at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He also will talk about a book he wrote about the impact of climate change in the region. -
The Alaska Air National Guard’s 168th Wing now has a dozen aerial-refueling planes, after four more of the tankers arrived at Eielson Air Force Base earlier this month. [Apr1]. And as KUAC’s Tim Ellis reports, the Air Force also plans to assign an additional 200 active-duty servicemembers to the base. -
The Alaska Department of Transportation has opened the Taylor Highway in the eastern Interior. And the department will begin plowing snow next week on another seasonally accessible highway to the west. -
Republican gubernatorial candidate Click Bishop announced his running mate Wednesday at a campaign event in Fairbanks. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed a fast-track budget bill Thursday that provides $450 million for construction projects, disaster relief and wildfire suppression. // State officials are considering a proposal to ask the EPA to regulate air quality in Fairbanks and North Pole separately. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed a fast-track budget bill Thursday that provides $450 million for construction projects, disaster relief and wildfire suppression. // The Alaska Department of Transportation opened the Taylor Highway last week and will begin clearing the Denali Highway next week. -
Law enforcement officers and a SWAT team converged on a middle school in Fairbanks Thursday after getting a report of what officials later determined was false information about gunshots at the school on the north side of town. -
The State of Alaska has finally secured almost $109 million in federal funding to replace two aging bridges on the Alaska Highway. -
Recent controversy over reports of cutbacks at UAF's primary research institute for Alaska Native languages drew the attention of state lawmakers this week. // The Fairbanks borough has the highest residential vacancy rate in the state. That should be good for renters, but it isn’t that simple. // Alaska lawmakers are considering two bills that would eliminate the need to change our clocks twice a year. // University of Alaska staff voted to form a union. The Coalition of Alaska University Employees for Equity will be the UA system's largest union. // The federal government has announced that it’s giving Alaska $109 million to help pay for replacing two old bridges on the Alaska Highway. -
The National Weather Service in Fairbanks on Tuesday confirmed what pretty much anyone who’s spent a few winters in the Interior might’ve been thinking: this winter was the city’s coldest on record. -
A national Republican senators organization has filed a complaint alleging that Senate candidate Mary Peltola spent campaign money on personal expenses. // Mayors of five Alaska boroughs where the proposed Alaska gasline would pass through disagree with the governor's plan to give tax breaks to the project. // Golden Valley Electric Association will hold a meeting Wednesday in Fairbanks to talk about its need to generate more electricity. // Thousands of Alaskans turned out Saturday in several communities around the state to protest the actions and policies of the Trump administration. // More than 1,700 comments had been posted online as of Monday in response to the federal government’s review of Alaska’s subsistence management program.
