Kat Fulwider
KUNR On-Air HostKat Fulwider is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and photographer. She is currently a senior at the Reynolds School of Journalism at UNR and is a graduate of the School of Photographic Arts of Ottawa. During her time in Canada she published the photo book, Your Side of the Story, which chronicles the experiences of the unhoused youth of Ottawa.
Through her multimedia reporting, Kat highlights the often unseen personal, sociopolitical, and environmental issues that influence the Reno-Tahoe region, which she calls home. Her background in biology and her career in the outdoor industry as a professional ski patroller, outdoor guide, avid climber and outdoorswoman gives her reporting a unique, inside approach to complex issues relating to science, environment, identity, adventure sports, and sustainability.
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The Trump Administration fired the entire board overseeing the National Science Foundation. UNR scientists respond. -
Amid large community pressure, Reno City Council voted to pass agenda item C1, taking steps toward more unified regulations for data center development in Reno and Northern Nevada. -
Tattoo shops around Reno open their doors for Friday the 13th tattoo deals and events. -
Over a hundred community members gathered in downtown Truckee on Sunday to honor the nine backcountry skiers who died in an avalanche last week. -
Eight people are dead after being caught in an avalanche northwest of Lake Tahoe. Dangerous conditions are making it difficult to locate one person who is still missing and presumed dead. -
The search continues for nine skiers caught in an avalanche north of Lake Tahoe, California. Six others were rescued Tuesday amid one of the strongest winter storms of the year in and around the Donner Pass. -
Lake Tahoe is the spiritual center of the world to the Washoe people, who are Indigenous to the region, but they have limited access to its shores. A grassroots nonprofit hopes to change that. -
Researchers from UNR venture to the rainforests of Central and South America to unravel the mysteries of chemical ecology. -
Two Colorado women will each receive $5,000 to hike from the Nevada state capital to the Canadian border along a new trail that connect Carson City to a network of cross country trails. -
Lease to Locals housing initiative launches in North Lake Tahoe to address housing vacancy rates and the ongoing housing crisis in the Truckee-Tahoe region.
