Wesley Early
Anchorage ReporterWesley moved to Anchorage in 2008, graduating from Bartlett High School and the University of Alaska Anchorage with a degree in journalism and public communications.
He started working in public radio in January 2016 as an intern at Alaska Public Media during his last semester of college. After graduating, he was hired full time and spent three years as a web editor, producer for Alaska News Nightly and education reporter. He then moved to Kotzebue (Qikiqtaġruk in Iñupiaq) to work at KOTZ-AM, where he was the community’s first news director in more than a decade.
After two years covering Arctic climate change, subsistence, Iñupiaq culture and the region’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Wesley returned home to Anchorage where he covers city government and Anchorage life. When he’s not at work, he enjoys reading, finding new music to obsess over and searching for a new restaurant to try with his wife.
Reach Wesley at wearly@alaskapublic.org or 907-550-8421.
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The lawsuit alleges the employee was fired after she raised concerns over a toxic workplace and financial mismanagement stemming from executive director Meg Zaletel, an Anchorage Assembly member. -
The city ordered the review after Anchorage police fatally shot 16-year-old Easter Leafa. -
Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica journalist Kyle Hopkins discovered these extreme delays while looking into a sexual assault from 2017. -
It's the second police shooting in Anchorage within 24 hours. The suspect and homeowner were both hospitalized. -
Police say a woman with tape around her wrists and mouth fled the location of the robbery and alerted someone at a nearby business. -
Despite the fourth snowiest October on record, roughly half of precipitation in Anchorage has been rain this winter. -
Rates on the federal marketplace for Alaskans are set to go up by about 17% this year, after two years of similar increases. -
The task force, convened by Gov. Mike Dunleavy in 2023, recently unveiled its final recommendations for addressing the state’s child care crisis. -
For our Ask a Climatologist segment, Brian Brettschneider says this year was wetter than normal, particularly in the summer, despite a relatively snowless December. -
The disappearance of a Fairbanks man prompts criticism of the local police department. Plus, a decline in caribou populations is a takeaway from this year's Arctic report card. And, despite added publicity, Skagway officials don't want to bump heli-skiing capacity.
