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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University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers will partner with Galena residents on a Yukon River hydroelectric project. -
After years of site surveys and analysis, the Army Corps of Engineers is preparing to begin dismantling a long-mothballed nuclear power plant at Fort Greely this summer. -
The Pentagon may move ahead this summer on a proposal to build a small self-contained nuclear power plant on Eielson Air Force Base. A senior Air Force official updated state lawmakers on the project last week. -
Two houses in Delta Junction were heavily damaged by fire Monday. Both structures were unoccupied, and no one was injured. The state Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating the cause of one of the fires, which sparked rumors locally about a serial arsonist. -
The Tanana Chiefs Conference is helping Interior villages replace some of their diesel fuel-generated electricity with power generated by solar panels. -
Workers are putting the final touches on a new child development center at Fort Wainwright. When it opens this summer, it’ll be the Army’s biggest facility for infants, toddlers and preschoolers. And it’ll take some of the pressure off other Fairbanks-area child-care providers. -
A new grocery store opened Wednesday in Delta Junction, more than two years after the old store’s roof collapsed under a heavy snow load. Hundreds of area residents turned out to finally be able to shop locally for groceries. -
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Alaska State Troopers are investigating a so-called “swatting” incident that led law-enforcement officers to raid a North Pole-area home after they got a false report about a murder and other violent crimes in progress.
