Anna Katayama
Anchor and Reporter
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Anna Katayama is an award-winning reporter who joined the Investigative team at KPTV in 2022. She had worked at KPTV for several years beginning in the late 90’s before taking some time away to raise her two kids. Now they are (mostly) grown up and she is excited to be back!
Anna is originally from Hawaii, but started her career at KNDO-TV in Yakima, Washington. After anchoring for a couple of years at KFSM-TV in Fort Smith, Arkansas she moved to Oregon to join the team at KPTV. Later, she anchored and reported for KOIN-TV.
She loves to travel but spends most of her time these days right here at home, watching her son and daughter play sports. She is thrilled to once again be using her talents as a journalist to serve the people who live in Oregon and Southwest Washington, a community which has been home for decades now.
Anna would love to hear from you whether you have a news tip or just want to say “Hi!”
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The FDA approved a new COVID vaccine on Monday that should roll out within a week.
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Changes are in the works for Portland’s downtown SmartPark garages.
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Negotiations are ongoing in the Camas School District where teachers are threatening to strike on the first day of school.
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The Police Accountability Commission held its final public meeting Tuesday night to share the results of its work.
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For the first time in 72 years, self-service gasoline is available throughout the state of Oregon.
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Major upgrades to Intel’s Hillsboro campus are expected over the next several years.
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Housing Multnomah Now started working with people living outdoors near the Steel Bridge a couple of months ago and now there are some signs of progress.
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After a 12-year-old boy was murdered in his Damascus home on Wednesday, the boy’s father says the system failed to protect his family from the accused gunman.
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Several custodians who work in Portland Public Schools are coming forward with allegations of sexual harassment.
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It’s Pride week in Portland and drag queens are gearing up to make a statement.
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At a time when many families are struggling with the rising costs of rent, childcare and basic necessities, a long standing organization is reaching out saying it has the resources to help more families in need.
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Thousands gathered at Oaks Park for their annual 4th of July fireworks show.
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A legendary minister to Los Angeles gang members paid a visit to a Salem church Tuesday.
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Portland Fire fought a house fire fed by gas from a leaking meter on Monday.
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Providence nurses called on the Oregon AG to investigate the hospital's use of “professional strikebreakers” this week.
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This week hundreds of kids kick off their summer break and Portland Parks and Recreation will be opening it’s seven outdoor pools Wednesday and want students to know, they are hiring.
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As outreach workers make efforts to get people out of tents and into shelter, the next step for some is addiction treatment.
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Outreach workers hit the streets of Portland just over a week ago, with the goal of moving the houseless into housing.
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West Linn residents have been upset about a freeway on ramp closure that they say caused traffic delays on numerous roads in the city
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A Woodburn family mourns the loss of a man who was a father, son and beloved brother.
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A fourth Safe Stay Community is in the works to house the houseless in the city of Vancouver.
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In just the last year, several teenagers have been killed or injured by gun violence in the Portland metro area.
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A shooting in Vancouver Wednesday night left one person dead.
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A woman is dead after a hit-and-run crash between a vehicle and a pedestrian on Southeast Division Street on Wednesday.
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A Portland woman is hoping for an arrest in a shooting that left her daughter seriously injured.
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Fentanyl has made headlines for years but school officials say the crisis now is even more dire than it was two years ago.
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This year out of the millions of kids expected to graduate from high school – 161 have been recognized as U.S. Presidential Scholars. One of them grew up in the Beaverton School District.
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A large crash on I-5 has the northbound lanes closed, about seven miles north of Albany near the line between Marion County and Linn County.
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A shooting over the weekend is the latest in a string of challenges facing a northeast Portland business.
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Summer is just around the corner and if it’s anything like past summers, we’ll be seeing at least a few days of extreme heat.
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A driver who police say was trying to get away from officers crashed into another vehicle in downtown Portland Tuesday.
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High School baseball programs do what they can to make participation possible for all interested students, but sometimes a lack of resources can pose challenges.
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A Temple University report shows that close to 60-percent of students at Portland Community College experienced housing insecurity over the previous year and close to 20-percent experienced homelessness.
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Many rural communities are struggling to find physicians who want to stay and work in their hospitals and clinics.
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Suicide among young people in Oregon is down for the third year in a row, decreasing 26 percent from 2018. But death by suicide among adults has increased.
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Oregon Governor Tina Kotek announced Monday the acceptance of Multnomah County’s updated plan for use of emergency homelessness funding.
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Debbie Zboril says she spent a month living in a tent outside the Vancouver mayor’s office.
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Efforts are underway to improve protections for victims of domestic violence in Washington state.
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The owners of Heathen Brewing host a drag brunch once a month. Recently, the business has been vandalized.
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On Tuesday night, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler held the first of two “Community Conversations” about a temporary alternative shelter site proposed for Southeast Portland.
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A birthing center in Gresham that serves hundreds of patients from East Multnomah and Clackamas counties is closing its doors at midnight Friday.
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Dozens of parents packed into the Evergreen Public Schools board meeting tonight to voice their concerns.
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More parents will soon have the option of enrolling their kids in a dual language program in the Beaverton School District.
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School leaders in rural northwest Oregon are worried about big budget cuts.
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Some good news and some bad news about getting body cams on Portland Police officers.
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As area roadways are cleared and traffic gets back to normal, we’ll still be dealing with some lingering effects of last week’s wintery weather.
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Portions of the metro area saw some improvements in road conditions Friday, but the effect of this week’s winter blast are far from over.
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The forecast calls for enough snow to make driving difficult in some areas of Portland.
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Some big changes are in store for the neighborhood surrounding the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.
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If you take a look at the 75 largest police agencies in the United States, you’ll find that the Portland Police Bureau sticks out because it’s the only one that still does not have its officers equipped with body cams.
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