Tim Rockey
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.
Updated: 22 hours ago
|By Tim Rockey
Over 10,000 customers of Chugach Electric Association were without power Wednesday evening. Power has now been restored.
Updated: May. 25, 2022 at 1:24 PM AKDT
|By Connor Matteson, Tim Rockey and Joey Klecka
A spokesperson for the Alaska State Troopers said the DHC-3 DeHavilland fixed-wing plane suffered an emergency problem that led to the crash that injured four people.
Updated: May. 20, 2022 at 9:05 PM AKDT
|By Joey Klecka and Tim Rockey
The National Weather Service issued multiple red flag warnings Friday as a dry spring has led to a warm stretch of weather brought on by a system of high pressure.
Updated: May. 20, 2022 at 5:32 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
A culvert near mile 16 of Lake Louise Road near Glennallen gave out, causing water to back up and surround a nearby home.
Updated: May. 19, 2022 at 3:27 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Among three guns confiscated at a South Carolina middle school, one had been stolen out of Alaska over four decades ago.
Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 3:38 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Search efforts have begun in the Lynn Canal north of Juneau for a woman who fell overboard from a cruise ship Tuesday, the U.S. Coast Guard reports.
Updated: May. 13, 2022 at 9:03 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Lanes of the Glenn Highway between Boniface Parkway and Muldoon Road are closed after multiple vehicles were involved in an accident, police say.
Updated: May. 13, 2022 at 3:54 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey and Joey Klecka
Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued three separate disaster declarations on Friday for the Lowell Point landslide, spring flooding, and the Galena fire hall roof collapse.
Updated: May. 13, 2022 at 2:41 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Patricia Chesbro has joined the race for U.S. Senate, and is the only Democrat currently bidding for the seat held by Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
Updated: May. 12, 2022 at 4:33 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Flooding along the Tanana River displaced 45 Manley Hot Springs residents from 25 different homes, according to a press release from the Alaska National Guard.
Updated: May. 12, 2022 at 12:21 PM AKDT
|By Joey Klecka and Tim Rockey
The man was attacked Tuesday evening during a training exercise west of the Anchorage Regional Landfill, in an area known to Alaska Army as Area 412.
Updated: May. 10, 2022 at 7:58 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
A wildfire has been reported at mile 46.5 of the Sterling Highway near Cooper Landing, and crews are responding attempt to put the fire out.
Updated: May. 10, 2022 at 6:06 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
A person died after crashing a red pickup truck along the Glenn Highway Monday afternoon.
Updated: May. 9, 2022 at 9:13 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey and Taylor Burke
A child last seen on Saturday morning in Kodiak is still missing, and nearly 1,000 volunteers have joined in the search efforts.
Updated: May. 9, 2022 at 7:58 PM AKDT
|By Joey Klecka and Tim Rockey
Anesha "Duffy" Murnane, 38 at the time of her disappearance, went missing Oct. 17, 2019, triggering a massive search effort that lasted months.
Updated: May. 9, 2022 at 2:43 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
A Willow woman died in a car crash near Willow at approximately mile 68 of the Parks Highway on Monday morning.
Updated: May. 8, 2022 at 4:30 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
The ice jam on the Tanana River that flooded the village of Manley Hot Springs over the weekend has broken, according to a briefing delivered to the Alaska Legislature by the Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
Updated: May. 8, 2022 at 1:44 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
A Saturday evening landslide has blocked Lowell Point Road in Seward, and city officials say the area remains too unstable to begin clearing.
Updated: May. 8, 2022 at 11:11 AM AKDT
|By Taylor Burke and Tim Rockey
Police say the driver refused to follow officers’ commands after being pulled over for a traffice stop.
Updated: May. 7, 2022 at 2:19 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
The Tanana River is flooding the village of Manley Hot Springs due to an ice jam approximately 10 miles up river.
Updated: May. 7, 2022 at 2:16 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Fairbanks Communications Director Teal Soden issued a press release on Saturday that said Fairbanks police arrested 42-year-old Matthew Myers after receiving multiple reports of a shooting near First Avenue at approximately 2:25 p.m. Friday. The release stated that Myers was charged with first-degree murder.
Updated: May. 6, 2022 at 4:44 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Starting this fall, Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District students will ride different buses on their way to school.
Updated: May. 5, 2022 at 5:25 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
The Denali National Park and Preserve reported that rangers are searching for 35-year-old Matthias Rimml of Tirol, Austria along the West Buttress of Denali above his last known camp at 14,000 feet of elevation.
Updated: May. 5, 2022 at 3:33 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Leaders from across Alaska and across the country recognized Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day on May 5.
Updated: May. 5, 2022 at 1:03 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Anchorage police say that human remains discovered in last summer in Turnagain Pass are those of a man who was reported missing in 2016, and police are now investigating the case as a homicide.
Updated: May. 2, 2022 at 2:24 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
The U.S. Department of Justice reported that a federal jury has convicted four members and an associate of the violent white supremacist gang the 1488s for the 2017 murder of Michael Staton in Alaska, and several other charges.
Updated: May. 2, 2022 at 12:52 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Alaska State Troopers report that the mayor of Pilot Station died Friday evening after crossing the Yukon River near Pilot Station on a snowmachine and falling through the ice.
Updated: May. 1, 2022 at 1:18 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Fairbanks police arrested a Fort Wainwright man after shots were fired outside a bar in Fairbanks early Saturday morning.
Updated: Apr. 30, 2022 at 4:43 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
A dentist from Kenai and his wife have been indicted on an array of fraud, and money laundering charges among others, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Updated: Apr. 30, 2022 at 10:54 AM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation reported that the first case of avian influenza has been confirmed in “a non-commercial backyard flock of chickens and ducks in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.”
Updated: Apr. 29, 2022 at 8:03 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Alaska State Troopers report that a man died Friday morning after a collision near Wasilla involving three vehicles.
Updated: Apr. 29, 2022 at 4:41 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
After the nonprofit previously in charge of hosting Anchorage’s main Fourth of July celebration dissolved, a new organizer has stepped up and begun the process of permitting the Independence Day celebration on the Delaney Park Strip.
Updated: Apr. 28, 2022 at 6:01 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Alaska State Troopers report that a Valdez heli-skiing guide died in an avalanche on April 25, despite the use of proper safety equipment.
Updated: Apr. 24, 2022 at 5:05 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
The wildfire burning near Kwethluk has grown to approximately 9,693 acres, but is expected to run out of fuel according to Division of Forestry officials.
Updated: Apr. 24, 2022 at 9:50 AM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Alaska State Troopers report that a Homer man died in a single vehicle collision early Saturday morning.
Updated: Apr. 23, 2022 at 2:44 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
The Alaska Division of Forestry reported on Friday that a fire near Kwethluk has grown to approximately 7,000 acres.
Updated: Apr. 23, 2022 at 2:38 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Nenana Ice Classic Manager Cherrie Forness will step down from the helm of the state’s oldest wagered guessing game after the tripod falls this spring.
Updated: Apr. 18, 2022 at 9:41 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey, Joey Klecka and Taylor Burke
The Alaska Division of Forestry reports that a fire estimated at 2,000 acres is burning in Southwest Alaska.
Updated: Apr. 18, 2022 at 5:30 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Fairbanks police arrested a man for arson following a fire at the Fairbanks Rescue Mission on Saturday.
Updated: Apr. 18, 2022 at 2:45 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Anne Sears was the first Alaska Native woman to work for the Alaska State Troopers and spent over two decades in Alaskan law enforcement. On Monday, the Department of Public Safety announced that Sears will lead the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Initiative from the department offices in Anchorage.
Updated: Apr. 16, 2022 at 11:34 AM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Anchorage police are investigating two deaths that they classified as suspicious in the Scenic Foothills neighborhood.
Updated: Apr. 15, 2022 at 1:52 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Anchorage attorney Joan Wilson has been appointed to direct the Alaska Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office, following the departure of former director Glen Klinkhart.
Updated: Apr. 13, 2022 at 6:46 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
The Alaska Department of Natural Resources announced in a press release on Friday that the Mat-Su Trails and Parks Foundation accepted a grant of $1.3 million to complete restoration and preservation work over three years at the Independence Mine State Historical Park in Hatcher Pass.
Updated: Apr. 12, 2022 at 1:34 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Palmer’s Leif Mumma is the latest Alaskan skier to qualify for the Freeride World Tour, a yearly competition among the world’s best backcountry skiers and snowboarders.
Updated: Apr. 11, 2022 at 10:47 AM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Anchorage police report that a man has been charged with murder following a fatal shooting Saturday morning in Midtown.
Updated: Apr. 8, 2022 at 2:25 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Anchorage police responded to two separate incidents involving threats of guns at Anchorage School District high schools that resulted in the arrest of two adults, and charges being forwarded to the Division of Juvenile Justice for two minors.
Updated: Apr. 8, 2022 at 12:15 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that 65-year-old Jay Allen Johnson of Delta Junction has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for 17 threatening voicemails he left for U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan.
Updated: Apr. 7, 2022 at 1:26 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
The Department of Justice reported that 48-year-old Andre Ronell Brown of Fairbanks has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for the distribution of counterfeit pills containing fentanyl.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2022 at 9:20 AM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey
Early voting in Palmer’s special recall election began on Monday and will continue at Palmer City Hall until election day on April 19.
Updated: Apr. 4, 2022 at 6:37 PM AKDT
|By Tim Rockey and Carly Schreck
Hiland Road partially reopens to local traffic later tonight for the first time since a major avalanche blocked the road on March 24.