Ellis Wiltsey
Senior Content Producer
Lincoln, NE
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Ellis graduated from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor's Degree in Broadcast Journalism.
Ellis is a native of Bellevue, Nebraska and enjoys reporting in her home state! In September 2020, she was promoted to Senior Content Producer. In this role she wears several hats including managing the reporting staff.
Before coming to KOLN-TV, Ellis worked as a reporter, producer and anchor at KUJH at the University of Kansas and interned at KETV in Omaha, Nebraska.
In her free time Ellis enjoys cooking, Jazzercise and volunteering at animal shelters.
When she's not cheering on the Huskers, Ellis is a proud Alabama Football fan and Tottenham Hotspur soccer fan! Watch out during basketball season because she is all in for her Jayhawks to take it all this year!
Updated: Sep. 26, 2022 at 10:41 AM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Officers are now looking for 19-year-old Jason A. Hernandez, who they say is the man who pulled the trigger shooting two other party-goers.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 9:51 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Following the death of her son by suicide in 2018, Anna Downing is spreading a message of hope to save even just one person from the same fate.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2022 at 10:22 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
A union representing more than 8,000 Nebraska state employees from all different fields will begin its new contract for negotiations Wednesday. Looking for higher wages and better benefits.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2022 at 2:24 PM CDT
|By Jacob Elliott, Ellis Wiltsey and 10/11 NOW
Lincoln Lancaster-County Health Officials updated the community on the new COVID-19 boosters for people age 12 and older at a briefing on Tuesday.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2022 at 8:57 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
In its 49th year, the SCCA Solo National Championships event brings together racers of all skill levels.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2022 at 7:33 AM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Right now, the city has set aside three areas for truck parking. Two on Centennial Mall at M and Q Streets, and a third on 8th Street between M and L Streets. Those are the options it lists for at least the first two weeks of the program, but say that could change or expand.
Updated: Sep. 2, 2022 at 7:01 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
The Huskers are one of the first to adopt a program that allows scholarship athletes to make up to $25,000 during their college career for success off the field.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 10:46 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
For one Lincoln startup, the focus is on athlete safety and recovery and a recent round of grant funding now has them designing for a new market: the U.S. military.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2022 at 9:37 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Lots of the pile-up used to happen over the weekend and was taken inside or addressed by store employees come Monday but since the closure, nobody is around full-time to do that much-needed clean-up.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2022 at 5:08 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
About six months ago, 26-year-old William Lewis noticed his body becoming weaker and three months ago he was diagnosed with Acute Rapid Onset ALS, the disease left him in a wheelchair and requiring extra care.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2022 at 10:39 AM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Tyler Loomis is the owner of Tailored Dreams, a party bus company in Lincoln. Over the weekend he was working underneath one of the 16-ton buses when it fell on his chest.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2022 at 10:11 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
The night was capped off with certificates, photos, and a job fair.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2022 at 10:18 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
For Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana, it seems to be a case of deja vu, as another attempt to get their issue on a ballot has fallen short.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2022 at 6:07 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Participants were asked to take bags of bright red sand and pour them into the cracks of the sidewalks and streets. To raise awareness about those who can metaphorically fall through the tracks of human trafficking, including women, children, and refugees.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2022 at 7:58 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Before it could make the trip overseas all the Huskers’ gear has gone through a few important steps like weighting, itemizing, and labeling each container so when the team touches down next week everything is already in place.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2022 at 9:40 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Lincoln Police said that the post in question was quickly debunked and that it’s being circulated in cities across the country using the same wording but whoever is posting it is simply swapping out city names to fool the population that’s seeing it.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 9:53 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
A new commercial has been circling social media. It features one of the newest faces on the Husker Football Team giving a plug for an Omaha-based heating and cooling company.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2022 at 8:08 AM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
In five days, most Lincoln Public Schools students will be going back to class.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2022 at 9:07 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
The company is known as A+ Berries, it’s focused on using Aronia berries, tasked by the American Aronia Berry Association to increase the value of the product across the board.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2022 at 7:13 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Starting Monday some fall sports will start practices and Friday 50 athletic trainers from Lincoln Public Schools and surrounding communities are getting a refresher before those get underway.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2022 at 11:14 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Passing time during the pandemic is something almost everybody has found themselves tasked with.
Updated: Jul. 29, 2022 at 5:56 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
The plan is more relaxed than in previous school years with more tools available now to prevent COVID-19. This year, even preschoolers can get vaccinated.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2022 at 9:24 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Lincoln Public Schools students are headed back to class in less than a month, meaning back-to-school prep is underway.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2022 at 12:08 AM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Senator Brewer said his long history of military service prepared him for the experience of traveling to a country at war, but what he saw was still just as hard as anything he’s done.
Updated: Jul. 26, 2022 at 9:20 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
A busy bus station right outside means lots of eyes have been peering in as that demolition gets underway. With broken windows and piles of materials inside, despite the looks, developers say that’s just part of the plan.
Updated: Jul. 22, 2022 at 5:55 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
That removal process is tedious, to say the least. Crews are carefully scraping off tiles and reattaching them to a material similar to contact paper in sections. 250 sections need to come down.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2022 at 5:12 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
The City of Lincoln created a list of seven items to update or add to the area.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2022 at 11:23 AM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
You'll likely see Lincoln Police Officers on electric bicycles on Husker game days and other outdoor events when navigating in a cruiser is difficult.
Updated: Jul. 20, 2022 at 11:03 AM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
The appointment system is now available at four of the DMVs locations in Nebraska. Three in the Omaha metro area and the West O Street location in Lincoln.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2022 at 5:16 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
So far Lancaster County has received about 445 afghan refugees and upwards of 65 Ukrainian refugees have found their homes here. It’s more difficult to pinpoint the exact number from Ukraine because their path to get here was more chaotic with war breaking out.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2022 at 4:57 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
In June, 2,626 families received food from the center. That’s up 138 families from the month before. The center said they have lots of familiar faces stop by most weeks, but nowadays more people are coming back and starting to come for the first time.
Updated: Jul. 12, 2022 at 9:35 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
DEA lab testing now shows that four out of every 10 pills that they are finding fentanyl in, contain a potentially lethal dose.
Updated: Jul. 8, 2022 at 9:34 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Recruitment and retention levels within law enforcement have seen an ongoing struggle. So where does one of the states biggest and most far-reaching agencies stack up when it comes to both?
Updated: Jul. 8, 2022 at 10:54 AM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
It was a terrifying sight just feet away from Felicia Bertram’s apartment. As she watched for the second night in a row, her car was fully engulfed in flames.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2022 at 10:00 AM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
The November General Election could have multiple ballot measures on it, as petitioners and organizers are utilizing these final days to fill out their quotas.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 4:01 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
A family's beloved beagle-mix was found after it was missing for two years.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 10:10 AM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Thursday night, neighbors got the first look at plans to change the intersections of 14th Street, Old Cheney Road, and Warlick Boulevard.
Updated: Jun. 29, 2022 at 8:58 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Traveling by RV is something that hit its stride during COVID with sales skyrocketing for a travel method that doubles as a home on wheels.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 9:48 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
In Nebraska, abortion is still legal up until 20 weeks gestation, but it’s likely lawmakers, whether in a special session or in January, will bring abortion ban bills which often umbrella other fertility-related topics as well.
Updated: Jun. 23, 2022 at 8:18 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
For those struggling financially, paying utilities and forfeiting something else to do so is a reality many face.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2022 at 10:26 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
If they collect enough it will only be on the ballot of Lincoln voters, which is why the threshold for petition signatures is much lower than other state-wide initiatives also eyeing that November ballot.
Updated: Jun. 21, 2022 at 9:17 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
For parents in Lincoln looking to vaccinate their children in that six-month to five-year age range, Tuesday was a date the White House had said was the rollout for those doses to start arriving. It’s been a lot of searching with few if any, appointments or doses to be found in the capital city.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2022 at 11:26 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Thursday night, people were invited to a meeting hosted by those working through UNMC, UNL, and Creighton University about what they’ve found.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2022 at 10:25 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Wednesday night in Lincoln a unique panel took on the topic of climate change. They say talking about it and getting in front of it before more happens is the goal.
Updated: Jun. 14, 2022 at 9:37 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
A new Lincoln outdoor attraction has found itself the target of theft. A disc golf course is missing items that were custom to the course and even planted in the ground.
Updated: Jun. 14, 2022 at 7:11 AM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
The triple-digit heat is creating another hurdle for clean-up efforts in Gage County. It comes as the National Weather Service said that area saw a tornado over the weekend, along with softball-sized hail.
Updated: Jun. 10, 2022 at 7:28 AM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
18-year-old Hannah Wadiso was one of the two people who were pinned underneath a Ford Taurus that careened into a crowd of people after that initial crash on O Street.
Updated: Jun. 7, 2022 at 9:31 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
Right now, LPD is looking to fill 40 open positions. Back in December, that number was 23. LPD also historically has one of the lowest staffing levels of any police agency in the country for a city of its size. When fully staffed that’s one officer for every 813 residents, down 40 officers right now it’s closer to one for every 920 residents. The national average is about a one to 400 ratios.
Updated: Jun. 6, 2022 at 9:57 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
As summer travel plans are starting to get underway many filling up at the gas station are in for a hefty price tag. As gas prices nationally and in Nebraska continue to sore, experts predict it’s not going to get better anytime soon.
Updated: Jun. 2, 2022 at 10:56 PM CDT
|By Ellis Wiltsey
According to the Nebraska Secretary of State’s office, there are 16 petition drives that at least registered to try to qualify for the November 2022 ballot, but it’s likely a bulk of them won’t make it.
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