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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Body camera footage of the Feb. 21 incident shows 41-year-old Puipuia Alaelua holding a woman on top of himself, with a gun pointed at her, before police shot and killed him. -
The roughly $5 to $6 million the city receives in marijuana taxes annually will go towards covering child care costs for those working in the sector, as well as projects aimed at expanding existing programs. -
The multi-year, $500 million project would free up space at the landfill and help power the city’s electrical grid, officials say. -
The event was primarily to support workers, with a focus on health care, education and other union laborers, but many took the opportunity to criticize the Trump administration. -
Tribal administrator Crystal Standifer says the tribe has assembled care packages for residents and put up flyers around town highlighting precautions for ashfall. -
A flurry of lawsuits followed the Trump administration’s crackdown on thousands of foreign students’ visas and records. -
Jean Kashikov is one of four UA students, and hundreds nationwide, who recently had their status terminated in the federal Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, or SEVIS. -
Residents who meet the income requirements for the Housing Choice Voucher program would receive assistance paying rent over five years. -
Yarrow Silvers, Erin Baldwin Day and Keith McCormick now represent East, Midtown and South Anchorage, respectively, and Jared Goecker represents Eagle River and Chugiak. -
Steele served on the Anchorage School Board from 2001 to 2010 and represented West Anchorage on the Anchorage Assembly from 2013 until 2018, when he resigned due to health concerns.
