Brittany Michaleson
Reporter
Lubbock, Texas
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Brittany Michaleson joined KCBD in January of 2021. She is a multimedia journalist who loves meeting new people and sharing their stories. She grew up not too far from the Hub City, in Plains, Texas, watching NewsChannel 11 and is excited to start her career with such a respected team.
Her passion for journalism began in high school, competing on the UIL team. She took that passion to Lubbock Christian University, where she wrote for The Duster Today, hosted several radio shows, and studied abroad in Avila, Spain. Her final semester, she was an intern in Washington, D. C., at the Voice of America in the Latin American Division for a weekly show called Venezuela 360. She graduated in 2020 with a degree in Mass Communications and minors in Spanish and Linguistics.
A native West Texan, Brittany loves being a part of the Lubbock community and is excited to kickstart her career sharing your stories.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2022 at 11:14 AM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
After losing their home and everything they owned in a fire, life took another turn for the Snider family. They battled 65 days in the NICU with their premature twin baby girls.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2022 at 10:59 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
South Plains Fair General Manager Jennifer Wallace says Lubbock is the last fair in Texas to sell beer.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2022 at 10:22 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Floyd County producers say they're seeing some of the biggest, most beautiful pumpkins they've raised, especially in the past few years.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 10:43 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
After a dry summer, late and heavy rainfall has more weeds popping up around town. The city says homeowners must take action or foot the bill.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 12:03 AM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Joyland owners say the toughest thing they're going through right now is knowing they aren't creating smiles anymore.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2022 at 10:40 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Maegan's family meets every year on her birthday at her favorite restaurant, leaving one seat open for her. This year, her father says they are missing support from law enforcement investigating her case.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2022 at 9:43 AM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Witnesses hurried to help Lubbock police officer Larry Barnhill moments after a vehicle hit him and sped off.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 11:10 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
A Lubbock couple is back in town after a weeklong journey racing across the Finnish countryside. They trekked 155 miles, all of their supplies on their back.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 3:01 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
After years of hard work, City employees and volunteers are angry and disappointed. Someone or a group of people vandalized 15 trees at McCullough Park last week, destroying them.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2022 at 10:45 PM CDT
|By Chelsea Collinsworth and Brittany Michaleson
Lubbock police are asking for the public’s help investigating a drive-by shooting that left an elderly woman dead.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2022 at 10:42 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
A global pandemic, war and more than 6,000 miles kept one college student from her dream for more than two years. Now, the 19-year-old from Ukraine has finally made it to Wayland Baptist University and will begin her first class Thursday.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2022 at 10:28 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
In downtown Lubbock, building debris will soon be moved to make way for a civic park. City leaders took another step today to fund it.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2022 at 10:46 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
It’s possible some out-of-town cotton producers brought the rain with them this weekend from the Mid-South and Southeastern United States.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2022 at 3:32 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Team Luke Hope For Minds has granted more than half a million dollars this year to support families of children with brain injuries, but Siegel says the applications keep coming in.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2022 at 6:52 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
International Grandmaster Aleksey Sorokin moved to Lubbock to join the Texas Tech chess team and won the U. S. Open Championship to start his senior year.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2022 at 11:07 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
While in the hospital with her 18-month-old baby girl, Trista Hamsmith decided something had to be done to protect children from the dangers of swallowing a button battery.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 10:37 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
The district passed a $40 million bond in May 2019 to build the high school. This year, all of its state-of-the-art amenities will be available to students.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2022 at 10:55 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Near the corner of University and Broadway Avenue, the store features all of the chain’s favorites, like it’s “world-famous” burritos.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2022 at 6:50 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Baker says Lubbock ISD is above the state average for post-program placement, meaning 18 months after graduation, the majority of students are employed or in college.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2022 at 9:49 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Hub City Ink just won a $10,000 scholarship from STAHLS’ to boost its mission of helping people with disabilities stay independent.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2022 at 7:03 AM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Slaton is the last municipality in Lubbock County to use its own dispatch services. City leaders hope the transition will save money, but dispatchers fear losing their position, livelihoods.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2022 at 6:43 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
A Texas Tech med school student is combining her public health knowledge and her love for urban farming to give back to the community.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2022 at 9:57 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Kallie Ketchersid says she's the happiest she's ever been, just months after she was seriously injured in a car crash.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2022 at 8:38 AM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
More than an athlete, his family says he was his 12-year-old daughter Aubree’s whole world. She describes her dad as funny, loving, and caring.
Updated: Jul. 29, 2022 at 3:41 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Before they took over from his grandfather, the farm was never really open to the public. In an ever-changing field, the Hamiltons wanted that to change.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2022 at 10:03 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Crawling through the bottom of a storm drain was probably not how Texas Tech vet student Savana Everhart imagined her Monday.
Updated: Jul. 26, 2022 at 11:11 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
“She would meet and greet everybody and she was at every event, to every ball game, every PTA event, every concession stand. She was always a big part of the community,”
Updated: Jul. 26, 2022 at 2:27 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
A Hale County, Texas family is grieving after three of their family members were killed in flash flooding in New Mexico on Thursday, July 21.
Updated: Jul. 14, 2022 at 4:04 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Director Katherine Wells says the concern for the general public is still very low. She says the department wants to get out ahead of the outbreak, asking the community to be mindful of the virus.
Updated: Jul. 13, 2022 at 6:42 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
The Google Chromebook Laptops, Samsung Galaxy Tablets, and T-Mobile hotspots can be checked out from any public library in town for two weeks at a time.
Updated: Jul. 12, 2022 at 6:45 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Friday marks one year since the hours-long standoff in Levelland that claimed the life of Lubbock County SWAT Commander Joshua Bartlett.
Updated: Jul. 11, 2022 at 7:23 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Two parents who brought digital weather thermometers to the Southwest Hoops Tournament recorded temperatures in the 90s and humidity at nearly 70 percent.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2022 at 6:35 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
It’s peak season for Lubbock Animal Services, so they’re offering free adoptions all month to help clear the shelter.
Updated: Jul. 5, 2022 at 4:49 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Two weeks after a New Home family lost their home to a fire, they had their twin baby girls 12 weeks early. Their family and friends have been integral in getting through the tumultuous time.
Updated: Jun. 29, 2022 at 6:53 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
A Lubbock doctor says the FDA's new ban on Juul products will more than likely be struck down. But if it doesn't, he says it could push more teens to transition to cigarettes.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 7:25 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
"If I can help save a life, save an injury, save a brain injury for one family, then I'm doing a good thing," Tim Siegel said.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 9:59 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Opening statements are expected to start Tuesday morning at the Lubbock County Courthouse in the capital murder trial of David Hampton. He’s accused of robbing 79-year old Celestino Rodriguez, beating him to death and leaving him in a field in 2019.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2022 at 10:41 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
After half the year, the City of Lubbock has already spent three-quarters of its fuel budget.
Updated: Jun. 21, 2022 at 9:58 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
If you normally drive down Central Lubbock on 19th street, your route is going to get a little trickier. For the next three years, there will be some form of lane closure, intersection closure, or TxDOT work going on.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2022 at 7:18 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
While the groundbreaking marks the start of construction, the plan for Leprino to come to Lubbock has been in the works for years. Leprino Executives say it'll generate more than $10 billion in Lubbock over the next 10 years.
Updated: Jun. 14, 2022 at 6:29 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
With current resources, CASA can only serve 40 percent of children in our area. With more community support, that can change.
Updated: Jun. 13, 2022 at 7:07 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Old Mill Trade Days closed its gates Sunday for the last time. The site has drawn in visitors and vendors from far and wide for many years, but business owners say a 'dynamic economic time' is forcing them to close up shop.
Updated: Jun. 8, 2022 at 5:35 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Wednesday morning, a Texas Tech researcher collected traps with more than 1,000 mosquitoes inside. The City of Lubbock says it’s working to get mosquito populations under control.
Updated: Jun. 7, 2022 at 9:59 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Severe drought in 2020 lead to economic strife for producers, some carrying over debt into the next season. To help make up that shortfall, the federal government is sending out emergency relief payments.
Updated: Jun. 6, 2022 at 10:47 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Alarming - that's what an area superintendent calls the state's teacher shortage. It's something Texas Tech plans to continue to address with a new $1.5 million grant.
Updated: Jun. 1, 2022 at 5:14 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
In the wake of tragedy, people don’t always have the right words to help, but experts say dogs can provide comfort that isn’t humanly possible.
Updated: May. 31, 2022 at 5:33 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Extreme endurance athlete and Marine veteran Tom Jones is in Lubbock for a few days along his journey to run 76 marathons in 76 consecutive days. He says the run is for his love of the United States and to raise awareness and funds for a nonprofit building a village that will take children back in time to become part of America's story.
Updated: May. 25, 2022 at 5:56 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
"Had a teacher come up to me just in tears and say 'For the first time, I was able to sit in church and focus on church instead of what I'm supposed to be doing tomorrow," Superintendent Jim Baum said.
Updated: May. 23, 2022 at 2:09 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
The baby formula shortage is causing concern for one family native to Lubbock - not because of their infant, but their 13-year-old son. Teenager Eli Rouse has eosinophilic esophagitis, or EOE, and has relied on a specialized formula for most of his life.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 7:10 PM CDT
|By Brittany Michaleson
Matt Rose with LP&L says part of his confidence comes from ERCOT's recent focus on improving reliability. He says reserve margins are higher than ever and he's encouraged by how the grid managed with what happened this past weekend.
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