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.
-
If approved, the three-year contract would increase teacher salaries by 5% in each of the first two years and by 4% in the third. -
A lack of enforcement has created frustration among police officers and the public for years, Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case said. -
Candidates who want to run for Assembly or school board have until 5 p.m. on Jan. 30 to file. -
Mayor LaFrance wants the Assembly to pause other revenue proposals, including her 3% sales tax, to focus on the $12 million education tax levy. -
The city’s rebranded energy and resilience planning effort is aimed at addressing the service and infrastructure needs a warmer climate could require. -
Weather Service forecaster Tracen Knopp said temperatures should be coldest Friday and Saturday night, possibly as low as 25 below zero. -
“You have a defendant who, if innocent, was kept, robbed of his freedom for seven years, and if guilty, well that case was dismissed. So justice was served to no one,” said Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica reporter Kyle Hopkins. -
Normally at odds over fish and game, Safari Club members and Kipnuk subsistence hunters share a deer hunt together. Plus, a look at unique holiday celebrations in communities across the state. -
Anchorage Fire Department officials say they received a report of the fire at around 5 a.m. Wednesday morning at a Dimond Estates mobile home. One person was found dead inside. -
The governor announced the appointment of Wasilla resident Steve St. Clair and Sutton resident Garret Nelson to the state House of Representatives.
