Hunter Sowards joined CBS Los Angeles KCBS and KCAL Los Angeles as a reporter in the summer of 2025, after serving as an anchor and reporter at sister station CBS13 Sacramento KOVR.
An award-winning journalist, Sowards joined CBS13 in 2023 after several years anchoring and reporting for KUSI in San Diego.
Before heading west, she was the primary anchor at KTRE 9, the station she grew up watching in her hometown of Nacogdoches, Texas.
Sowards is a 2016 graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University, where she majored in radio and television broadcasting and earned placement on the Dean’s and President’s Lists. As part of her studies, she interned at KTRE and later at KLTV in Tyler.
Her storytelling has earned wide recognition, including multiple first-place awards from the San Diego Press Club, four Emmy nominations, and finalist honors in the 2023 San Diego Union-Tribune Readers Poll for “Best Local News Anchor” and “Best Television Personality.”
