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 group was there to promote Alaska’s position as a source of petroleum for export, and to focus on removing barriers to developing the state’s energy resources. -
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and EPA administrator Lee Zeldin are part of a group that will travel to the North Slope on Monday and later participate in Governor Mike Dunleavy’s sustainable energy conference in Anchorage. -
Despite a decline in volcanic activity over the past two months, Spurr is at a yellow alert level, indicating that activity is well above normal. -
The new facility would almost quadruple existing child care capacity, and add two infant care class rooms. But a loss of federal funding has put the project in jeopardy. -
Melting glaciers are creating prime fish habitat, but they’re also exposing land that mining companies say could hold valuable minerals. -
On Aug. 13, 16-year-old Easter Leafa was shot by Anchorage police, prompting community outrage and a series of reforms from the city. -
Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case said officers pulled Utuva Alaelua over for a headlight issue after he drove away from a vehicle linked to a man with a felony warrant. -
Assembly member George Martinez thinks his measure could help Anchorage’s economy by connecting teenagers to jobs, especially as the school district prepares to roll out its career academies initiative. -
University of Alaska officials were informed last week that the federal government had terminated their $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation. -
Officers saw a gun in Utuva Alaelua’s lap and shot him after he didn’t respond to requests to put his hands up, Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case said.
