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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After a roughly five-hour standoff at the Midtown Hampton Inn last Friday morning, Anchorage police fatally shot a man they say held two adults and several children hostage. -
The change to the University of Alaska program follows President Trump’s directives aimed at getting rid of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. -
Police responded shortly before 4 a.m. Friday to the Hampton Inn, in what soon became a SWAT response. Nobody else was injured. -
“We're not telling you you can't have these things in your home,” said Assembly member Karen Bronga. “We're just saying, if you have these things, that you need to check your kids.” -
Municipal Manager Becky Windt Pearson says community members want the building to house a more all-purpose recreation center, like the city operates in the Spenard and Fairview neighborhoods. -
A total of 91 skiers and snowboarders mixed and mingled as they paired up to take a chairlift up part of the mountain, and use the time to get to know each other. -
The body voted 7 to 4 Tuesday night to indefinitely postpone an ordinance that would’ve reinstated a $40 fine for jaywalking. In 2023, Assembly members voted to eliminate the fine. -
The change is set to last until the end of May 2028. -
The ruling comes after the ACLU asked a judge for a temporary restraining order against the city’s plans to abate an encampment near North Star Elementary School. -
Searchers find no survivors on a Bering Air flight that crashed yesterday near Nome. Plus, the Alaska Senate joins the House urging President Trump to keep the name of Alaska's highest peak.
