KPAX News Team

• KPAX News Staff

  Jill Valley

  

  Posted 6:44 PM 4/18/2011

  Jill Valley 's the most recognized newscaster in western Montana. She graduated from Washington State University and landed her first television job at WOWL-TV in Florence, Alabama. She headed west to anchor and report in Missoula, Montana at KECI-TV then moved across town to KPAX. Jill also (More)

  
  

• KPAX News Staff

  Mark Holyoak

  

  Posted 6:45 PM 4/18/2011

  Mark Holyoak anchors the 5:30 and 10:00 News. He joined KPAX in January of 2003 and was honored as the 2006 and 2005 Montana Broadcasters Association "Commercial Television Program of the Year" award winner for his "Outdoors" series.  Mark was also named the 2004 Montana Broadcasters (More)

  
  

• KPAX News Staff

  Justine Judge

  

  Posted 9:52 AM 1/6/2012

  Justine Judge is back! A familiar face to Montana, you'll be able to wake up with Justine every day on Montana this Morning.

  A native New Englander, Justine first came to Big Sky Country in 2004 after graduating with a bachelors degree in broadcast journalism from Lyndon State College in (More)

  
  

• KPAX News Staff

  Robin O'Day

  

  Posted 11:12 AM 9/23/2010

  Robin O'Day is a weekend anchor at KPAX.  You can also find her filling in for the weather department and reporting. Robin was born in England and lived in a half a dozen places by the time she graduated from high school, thanks to being an Air Force brat.

  Always the 'new kid' and (More)

  
  

• KPAX News Staff

  Dennis Bragg

  

  Posted 12:24 PM 5/17/2011

  Dennis is a Montana native who's "radio career" actually began as newborn when his father was working at KPRK in Livingston and his parents lived in an apartment at the station.

  Never far from a microphone, he took to the air at age 16 in Forks, WA (of later "Twilight" fame) and spent the (More)

  
  

• KPAX News Staff

  Melissa Rafferty

  

  Posted 7:44 AM 9/21/2010

  Melissa Rafferty is the Executive Producer at KPAX/KAJ TV for the last seven years.

  Melissa graduated from Washington High School in Two Rivers, WI in 1991.  She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point with a bachelor of arts in Broadcast Journalism with a minor in (More)

  
  

• KPAX News Staff

  Irina Cates

  

  Posted 11:21 AM 9/23/2010

  Irina Cates joined the KPAX news team in the summer of 2005. Started working for the morning show, Montana This Morning, while she worked on her broadcast degree at The University of Montana.

  Irina was hired on as a full-time, general assignment reporter in February of 2008. She focuses on (More)

  
  

• KPAX News Staff

  Breanna Roy

  

  Posted 11:20 AM 9/23/2010

  I first arrived in the KPAX newsroom five years ago as a senior at Big Sky High School here in Missoula. I shadowed reporters for my senior project before producing my first news package. I was hooked. I should have known early on that broadcast journalism was my calling. As my family would tell (More)

  
  

• StormTracker Weather Staff

  Erin Yost

  

  Posted 11:24 AM 9/23/2010

  Erin joined Montana's News Station in June 2010 after working at Beartooth NBC in Helena as the Chief Forecaster for more than two and a half years.

  Being a Minnesota native, Erin loves snow - but had nowhere to ski! So, while visiting a friend in Missoula back in 2003, she decided Montana (More)

  
  

• StormTracker Weather Staff

  Russ Thomas

  

  Posted 11:22 AM 9/23/2010

  Meteorologist Russ Thomas comes to Missoula from Shreveport, Louisiana where he spent two years forecasting at KSLA-TV. While in Shreveport, Russ gathered plenty of experience in forecasting severe storms, tornadoes, and hurricanes.

  Russ grew up in Marietta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. (More)

  
  

• StormTracker Weather Staff

  Chrissy Kohler

  

  Posted 11:09 AM 7/25/2011

  Chrissy Kohler came to KPAX and KAJ in April of 2011 after living in Columbia South Carolina for seven years. She is very excited to experience the variety of weather Montana has to offer. She also is looking forward to becoming an expert skier.

  Chrissy grew up outside of Dayton, Ohio (More)

  
  

• KPAX Sports Staff

  Derek Buerkle

  

  Posted 11:23 AM 9/23/2010

  Derek Buerkle started working at KPAX in the summer of 2007, and was promoted to Sports Director in the summer of 2010.

  He grew up in Big Timber, Montana, and graduated from Sweet Grass County High School in 2002. He then came to the University of Montana and graduated with a degree in (More)

  
  

• Kalispell News Staff

  Angela Marshall

  

  Posted 11:22 AM 9/23/2010

  KAJ Anchor and Producer Angela Marshall graduated from the University of Montana in the spring of 2005 with a degree in Broadcast Journalism.  Angela has a Hearst Award and two Society of Professional Journalists Awards under her belt.

  She is a native to the state of Montana.  (More)

  
  

• Kalispell News Staff

  Dax VanFossen

  Posted 9:51 PM 9/16/2010

  The first thing you should know about Dax is that he's Montana born and raised. Born in Great Falls in the 1970's, his family later moved him to the far-east, or Miles City Montana.

  Graduating from Custer County High School in 1996, Dax headed off for the Navy aircraft carrier USS Abraham (More)

  
  

• Kalispell News Staff

  Katy Harris

  

  Posted 12:43 PM 10/5/2010

  Katy Harris joined the KAJ news team in September of 2010 reporting and sometimes anchoring the Flathead Valley focused newscast.

  Katy is a native of Nebraska, and her father's job in law enforcement moved them to Oklahoma, Washington State and finally Montana, where she grew up in (More)

  
  

• Kalispell News Staff

  Laura Wilson

  Posted 11:13 AM 9/23/2010

  Laura joined the KAJ News team in November 2010, after working at KPAX, in Missoula, for nearly a year.

  Laura is a multi-media journalist, covering both news and sporting events. She graduated from the University of Montana in May of 2010, where she earned an SPJ award in Television Sports (More)