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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Two education-related ballot propositions and a proposed bond for public safety improvements are currently failing. -
Last summer's historic tsunami in Southeast means new itineraries for some cruise lines this year, and citing budget constraints, the Ketchikan Gateway Borough School Board votes to close two schools. -
The Anchorage School Board voted to close Campbell STEM Elementary to address the district’s roughly $90 million budget deficit, which also led officials to cut hundreds of teacher positions and close two other schools. -
Two conservative candidates -- Donald Handeland of Eagle River and Dave Donley of Midtown Anchorage -- were leading in races for open seats, as was North Anchorage progressive Sydney Scout. Three incumbent Assembly members held sizable leads. -
Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case says officers responded to reports that an armed man was choking a woman near her infant child in a northeast Anchorage home. -
Anchorage officers determined Nicholas Smith, 42, was walking in the road when a Chevy Express van hit him on March 28. Police were told on April 3 that Smith died from the incident. -
Whether Micah Bonin died as a result of the officer’s gunshots or a fire Bonin is believed to have started in a South Anchorage home is still under investigation, Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case said Thursday. -
The 12-year-old's immigration attorney says the man believed to be his father has so far avoided multiple court orders for a paternity test. -
The vehicle’s driver remained at the scene and cooperated with officers. No charges have been filed related to the incident, police said in a statement. -
Police say a man fired on officers from inside a burning home. Shortly after an officer shot back, a fire that police believe was started by the suspect engulfed the home.
