Tim Rockey
Sr. Digital Reporter/Producer
Anchorage
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Tim Rockey focused much of his recent reporting on local government and also covered hundreds of local sporting events from the sidelines. He spent time coaching baseball in Palmer before becoming a reporter full-time.
He joined Alaska's News Source in October 2021 as a digital reporter and producer. In August 2022 he was promoted to the role of senior digital reporter/producer.
Updated: 4 hours ago
|By Tim Rockey and Joey Klecka
A small landslide has knocked out power to parts of Juneau and Douglas Island.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2022 at 1:51 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Superior Court Judge Jack McKenna issued a decision in Randall Kowalke’s legal challenge of Wasilla Rep. David Eastman’s eligibility for elected office, partially granting Kowalke’s request for a preliminary injunction, and ordering the Division of Elections to delay certification of House District 27 election results until the case has been settled.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2022 at 3:29 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey, Carly Schreck and Joey Klecka
Alaska State Troopers reported that a brown bear was killed after it attacked two people at the end of Matanuska Townsite Road.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2022 at 5:41 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Superior Court Judge Jack McKenna heard arguments from the Division of Elections and legal counsel for Rep. David Eastman and Randall Kowalke on a preliminary injunction filed by Kowalke’s lawyer — Savanah Fletcher of the Northern Justice Project — to remove Eastman from the November general election ballot.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2022 at 12:23 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
A grand jury in Kenai indicted a Homer man on charges from a Dec. 21, 2021, car crash that killed one and injured two others.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2022 at 5:20 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
A Nikiski man has been arrested after a requested welfare check on Tuesday became a homicide investigation.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 2:50 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
The Anchorage Assembly voted 8-4 in opposition of Mayor Dave Bronson’s appointee for municipal attorney, Mario Bird.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2022 at 12:59 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
A man found dead on Sept. 3 has now been identified by the Anchorage Police Department.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2022 at 9:48 PM AKDT
|By Joey Klecka and Tim Rockey
During the special meeting, the assembly presented a statement that revealed the investigation into reported allegations of harassment by an unnamed employee of the borough against Pierce.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2022 at 2:59 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey, Carly Schreck and Andrew McMunn
The Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District School Board’s vote was 5-1 to suspend a policy that allowed transgender students to use the gendered bathroom corresponding to the gender they identified with.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2022 at 1:00 PM AKDT
|By Jeremy Rolston and Tim Rockey
Police arrested a young man following a phone call that led them to a Sand Lake residence, where they found the body of a woman.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 7:45 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey and Carly Schreck
The Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District School Board voted to suspend a policy that previously allowed transgender students to use the gendered bathroom which corresponds with their own gender identification.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 3:31 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
The Department of Revenue will be led by Acting Commissioner Deven Mitchell starting on Sept. 12 after previous commissioner Lucinda Mahoney resigned on Sept. 2.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 3:04 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
On Wednesday, two watchdog groups filed a complaint with the Alaska Public Offices Commission alleging that Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s campaign for reelection had committed “unprecedented violations of Alaska’s campaign finance laws.” Dunleavy’s campaign has responded to the complaint.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2022 at 1:13 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced the dollar figure for the 2022 Permanent Fund Dividend from Three Bears in Palmer.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2022 at 5:03 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
A hunter from Michigan survived an attack from a sow grizzly bear near Glennallen, and was safely rescued and taken to a nearby ambulance by Alaska Wildlife Troopers.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2022 at 4:24 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
A group of three men has gone missing from Bethel after they took a boat on the Kuskokwim River from Bethel. Additionally, another man has been reported missing out of Kalskag on Sept. 4, approximately 70 miles upriver from Bethel.
Updated: Sep. 2, 2022 at 1:03 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
A T-bone collision at the intersection of the Glenn Highway and the Parks Highway in Palmer has seriously injured four juveniles, according to the Alaska State Troopers.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2022 at 4:18 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Commissioner James Cockrell announced that Capt. Maurice “Mo” Hughes has been promoted to Alaska State Trooper colonel, the first Black person to serve at a rank above captain for the troopers.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2022 at 1:42 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
The mayor of Houston estimated in early August that some 60 homes were impacted by the flooding of Willow Creek, the Little Susitna River, and other riverine bodies of water flowing from the Talkeetna Mountains.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 6:38 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey and Paul Choate
Democrat Mary Peltola won the ranked-choice election to replace the late Republican Rep. Don Young by defeating former Gov. Sarah Palin.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 3:30 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
A Wasilla man driving a motorcycle away from police at speeds of over 100 mph early Sunday morning hit a moose and died, Wasilla police said.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2022 at 7:29 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
One person was injured in a crash at the Wolf Lake Airport Monday afternoon.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2022 at 3:21 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Anchorage farmer Dale Marshall again won the giant pumpkin weigh-off at the Alaska State Fair in Palmer — this time setting a record for the largest pumpkin in state history.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2022 at 6:44 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey and Taylor Burke
With the Anchorage School District suffering a shortage of bus drivers, active-duty airmen will now be called into action behind the wheel.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2022 at 2:03 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Charlie Pierce announced on his campaign’s Facebook page that he is stepping down from his mayoral office to focus on his gubernatorial campaign.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2022 at 12:38 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
An Oregon man was killed in a car accident near mile 71 of the Seward Highway on Thursday and four other people involved in the crash were injured.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2022 at 3:43 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
The American Civil Liberties Union and others have filed a lawsuit against Lieutenant Gov. Kevin Meyer and Department of Elections Director Gail Fenumiai in Superior Court for the right to a ballot-curing process in Alaskan elections.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2022 at 1:21 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Republican candidate for the late Rep. Don Young’s Congressional seat Tara Sweeney announced that she has suspended her campaign.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2022 at 6:57 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Two people boating on the Kobuk River were found dead on Aug. 19 after they were reported as overdue to the Alaska State Troopers
Updated: Aug. 17, 2022 at 3:36 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
More than 50 new bus drivers will soon be behind the wheel for the Anchorage School District.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2022 at 4:11 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
The wreckage of a deadly plane crash was discovered on Aug. 12 about 100 miles from Deadhorse.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2022 at 5:37 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
The Mat-Su Borough School District announced to parents that they will have rolling cancelations of bus routes ahead of the new school year.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2022 at 7:06 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Nearly four years after the magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook Southcentral Alaska, community and Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District leaders visited the new Houston High School building on Thursday.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2022 at 4:36 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
The Anchorage School District is moving to a rotating schedule for student transportation on buses, and hoping that an aggressive recruitment strategy can help attract enough drivers.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2022 at 4:56 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
A small slide has closed the Mirror Lake on-ramp to the northbound lanes of the Glenn Highway.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2022 at 4:38 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey and Melissa Frey
The Little Susitna River and Willow Creek have flooded in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, closing several roads.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2022 at 3:14 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Anchorage Health Department Director Joe Gerace is resigning following “severe health issues” he experienced over the last week.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2022 at 5:01 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
An Oklahoma man was fined in Nome District Court after illegally harvesting a musk ox near Kotzebue in March of 2020.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2022 at 4:45 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
The Anchorage School District has a bus driver shortage two weeks ahead of the first day of school for Anchorage students.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2022 at 4:39 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Anchorage residents experiencing emergencies will be unable to call 911 and need to call 311 instead.
Updated: Aug. 1, 2022 at 3:40 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
The Teamsters Local 959 reached an agreement with AT&T on a new contract that was ratified on July 31.
Updated: Jul. 29, 2022 at 9:47 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
A driver traveling along the Glenn Highway left the roadway on the Knik River bridge and fell into the river below, closing the Glenn Highway in both directions Friday evening.
Updated: Jul. 29, 2022 at 2:39 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Each Ursa Major Elementary School student has been rezoned by the Anchorage School District to other schools located on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2022 at 12:28 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Anchorage police report that one man was hospitalized and another was arrested following a shooting on Sunday in the Spenard neighborhood.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2022 at 6:00 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
The Alaska National Guard rescued three plane crash victims from two separate Super Cub crashes in Southcentral Alaska on Wednesday.
Updated: Jul. 25, 2022 at 5:24 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Ursa Major Elementary School may have issues that make the school building vulnerable to a seismic event, according to a letter from Anchorage School District Superintendent Jharrett Bryantt sent to some parents on Monday.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2022 at 3:32 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey and Kristen Durand
Anchorage police are investigating an officer-involved shooting at Centennial Park.
Updated: Jul. 20, 2022 at 5:00 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Another bear was shot and killed Wednesday morning near the Centennial Park Campground where over 200 homeless residents are currently camping.
Updated: Jul. 20, 2022 at 3:17 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
A man went missing after boating across Lake Iliamna on Sunday.
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