Northern California will say goodbye this week to a familiar face on KCRA’s morning newscast as Erin Heft leaves Sacramento’s NBC affiliate for a job closer to her Texas roots.
Erin Heft first joined Channel 3 as a news intern in June 2018. After a nearly three-year stint with the E.W. Scripps Co. as a reporter and fill-in anchor, she returned to the station in June 2021 as a reporter and fill-in anchor. Now, the self-proclaimed Northern California lover will head to Dallas to join what she described as a “legendary newsroom,” Heft announced in a Facebook post Tuesday.
“I’m filled with thrill and grief,” Heft said in a Thursday interview. “Thrilled because I can’t wait to go, but grief because it’s the closure of the chapter of Northern California, and I really do just adore it here.”…