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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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.
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A team of specialists with the Army Corps of Engineers and a contractor has completed another round of work in preparation for resuming a decommissioning and dismantling project on the old mothballed SM-1A nuclear power plant at Fort Greely.
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The 52nd annual Delta Farm Forum will be held Saturday at Delta Junction High School. Organizers of the agricultural exposition say there’ll be something for everyone this year, including farmers and ranchers and dairy workers from around the state -- and smaller-scale producers who grow veggies in their backyard garden.
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Golden Valley Electric Association customers’ monthly bill will increase by an average of $29, starting Friday, due to a Fuel and Purchased Power rate hike caused largely by the loss of access to cheaper natural gas-generated electricity.
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The federal Department of Agriculture is offering grants to help people who live and work in Alaska’s rural areas reduce their energy costs. The program is available to rural small businesses, cooperatives and agricultural producers.
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Chinook winds that exceeded 80 mph Tuesday caused damage in areas around Delta Junction and Denali. The southerly airflow also set or tied some daily high temperature records.
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A Delta Junction man has pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud as part of a plea deal with the U.S. Attorney’s Office to settle a case in which he was charged with defrauding investors out of more than $700,000 dollars they thought would be used to develop a cannabis business in Salcha.