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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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.
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A Delta Junction man was killed Sunday in a wreck near Fort Greely when his SUV slammed into the back of a slow-moving Army Humvee on the Richardson Highway, according to Alaska State Troopers.
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NewsThe federal Bureau of Land Management is planning to create a recreation management area around the Castner Glacier, in the eastern Alaska Range near Black Rapids. The BLM proposed the plan largely to deal with the increasing number of visitors who come to see the glacier’s ice cave.
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The state Department of Transportation will begin work on a new bridge over the Johnson River south of Delta Junction later this year. It’s one of three Alaska Highway bridges DOT plans to build over the next few years to replace spans constructed during World War II.
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More than 10,000 soldiers will converge on the Donnelly Training Area near Fort Greely next week in preparation for the largest military training exercise of its kind. And the 11th Airborne Brigade will begin moving equipment into the area later this week in convoys on the Parks and Richardson highways.