Jana Katsuyama
Jana Katsuyama has been with the KTVU news team since 2007, reporting for the Ten O'Clock News and covering events as far away as wildfires in Southern California and the 2011 Touhoku earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster, where she reported from Tokyo. She has received multiple Emmy awards and nominations, as well as honors from the Associated Press. She previously worked at WDTN in Dayton, Ohio and KBJR in Duluth Minnesota. She has been an active volunteer, emceeing and working for more than a dozen Bay Area community and non-profit organizations, as well as her alma mater Oberlin College. She is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association and a former board member of the National Association of Television Arts and Sciences Northern California and Ohio chapters.
The latest from Jana Katsuyama
Because of COVID, Jews will ring in Rosh Hashana with empty synagogue seats
With the coronavirus pandemic, seats will be empty at synagogues and temples throughout California.
San Francisco businesses that can now reopen worry about how to pay back rent
They are still on the hook for up to six months of backrent and could be in danger of eviction at the end of the month if the city's commercial eviction moratorium is allowed to expire.
'Problem Solvers Caucus' offers coronavirus relief compromise
Just as the White House and Congress seem too polarized to get a coronavirus relief bill done for the American people, there was a ray of bipartisan light Tuesday.
CDC study links restaurants to higher rate of COVID-19 transmission
Dining at restaurants may have a higher rate of COVID-19 transmission than other activities like shopping or riding public transportation, a CDC study concluded.
EDD blames data breach for fraud, announces investigation
The California Employment Development Department announced Thursday that they are taking new steps to stop fraud, after receiving reports from across the state from Californians who received strange deliveries of EDD unemployment benefit letters and debit cards addressed to other people.
Businesses struggling to survive dealt another blow with smoke-choked skies
For many business owners, though, it's not the smoke that stings.
EDD sends laid off bus driver waiting for unemployment check 97 letters that weren’t hers
A San Francisco school bus driver who was laid off due to the pandemic says she applied for unemployment benefits through the Employment Development Department back on July 3, but still hasn't received an unemployment check.
15 Marin County schools qualify to reopen for in-person instruction
"It's been a long five and a half months since school closed and we're thrilled to be going back," said Jenny Novack, a Kentfield resident and mother of two children.
San Francisco police gyms have remained open during pandemic shutdowns
San Francisco police gyms have stayed open throughout the coronavirus pandemic, while indoor fitness centers around the city remain closed.
Firefighter dies battling August Complex Fire in Mendocino County
The firefighter was killed in Mendocino National Forest where a wildfire that started on Aug. 17 was 20% contained, according to a statement from the U.S. Forest Service.