WHEN KCRA WENT ON THE AIR IN 1955, A COMMITMENT WAS MADE THAT THIS WOULD BE WHERE THE NEWS COMES FIRST. FEW PEOPLE CAN TRACE THEIR CAREERS BACK TO THE START OF A LEGACY, BUT IT ALL STARTED FOR STAN ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Longtime Sacramento news anchor Stan Atkinson died on Sunday at the age of 92, Channel 3 (KCRA) and Channel 13 (KOVR) reported ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former KCRA 3 anchor Carol Bland, who shared the anchor desk with Stan Atkinson between 1990 and 1994, is reflecting on the legacy ...

WAS. JUST HADN’T CHANGED AT ALL. IN FACT, LESTER HOLT WITH NBC NIGHTLY NEWS STARTED AS AN INTERN HERE AT KCRA THREE. HE WAS ALSO SHARING HIS MEMORIES OF STAN ATKINSON. WHEN I OFFER ADVICE TO ASPIRING ...

Too often the words "giant," "legend," and "icon" are used to describe someone. Yet Sacramento has genuinely lost a man who epitomized all three of those adjectives. Longtime Sacramento anchor Stan ...

Stan Atkinson was seemingly larger than life. Sacramento Bee reporter Bob Sylva called the longtime Sacramento news anchor “the man who owns Sacramento” in a 1986 profile. It stuck. After Atkinson ...

Stan Atkinson is a name synonymous with Northern California news. The titan of television in Sacramento is remembered as a journalist whose career served as a blueprint for future generations. It was ...

Stan Atkinson was a founding face of Sacramento news. He was known as the reporter who went where the story was. A Sacramento Bee profile called him The man who owned Sacramento. He joined a fledgling ...

Longtime Sacramento news anchor Stan Atkinson died on Sunday at the age of 92, Channel 3 (KCRA) and Channel 13 (KOVR) reported Monday morning. For nearly three decades, Atkinson was a mainstay of ...

Former KCRA 3 anchor Carol Bland, who shared the anchor desk with Stan Atkinson between 1990 and 1994, is reflecting on the legacy of the legendary Sacramento journalist after his death at age 92. “He ...