Blake Hill
Multimedia Journalist
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Blake Hill was born and raised in Wichita Falls and graduated from Rider High School in 2017. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in English from Midwestern State University in August 2022.
Blake joined the News Channel 6 Team in November 2022 as a multimedia journalist. In his spare time, he enjoys going to the park with his two dogs, Nico and Luna. He is excited to tell stories about the people of Texoma. If you have a local story idea, send him an email to Blake.Hill@KAUZ.com.
Updated: May. 29, 2023 at 10:35 AM CDT
|By Blake Hill
The class of 2023 seniors were cheered on by friends and family as they walked across the stage.
Updated: May. 27, 2023 at 11:35 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
The community center is over 100-years-old and donations went toward renovation projects for the building.
Updated: May. 27, 2023 at 11:31 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
The renovations aimed to make families more comfortable, and staff is excited to kick this season off.
Updated: May. 23, 2023 at 6:18 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
"We’re a family, and we feel like we gonna take care of our guests we treat or guest like family,”
Updated: May. 22, 2023 at 7:10 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
"That is keeping you in the vehicle with your best chances of survival are."
Updated: May. 22, 2023 at 6:45 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
"This is something that the court is going to have to decide, not once, but on a regular budgetary basis."
Updated: May. 20, 2023 at 10:50 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
"I have had people start to tear up when they finally realize, they can get out of their house."
Updated: May. 20, 2023 at 10:47 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
Both organizations strive in educating everyone on the crisis.
Updated: May. 20, 2023 at 8:31 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
The fire caused approximately $10,000 in damages.
Updated: May. 16, 2023 at 5:29 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
"The main thing is that the cars get saved, and the artifacts get saved."
Updated: May. 15, 2023 at 6:26 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
"They're not immune to being hit by people driving with their cellphones in their face."
Updated: May. 15, 2023 at 11:09 AM CDT
|By Blake Hill
700 students were expected to attend.
Updated: May. 15, 2023 at 10:57 AM CDT
|By Blake Hill
“It’s the community coming together for a cause that is really important."
Updated: May. 13, 2023 at 5:25 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
Two women had been shot and were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Updated: May. 12, 2023 at 11:05 PM CDT
|By KAUZ Digital Media Team and Blake Hill
Fire crew responded to a house fire in Wichita Falls that was caused by a lightning strike.
Updated: May. 8, 2023 at 6:45 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
"The two new scanners were still there in the box, just like we’d received them."
Updated: May. 8, 2023 at 6:28 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
"Two main places that the average resident interacts with county government, jury duty and taxes."
Updated: May. 7, 2023 at 3:11 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
This incident is an ongoing investigation with Texas Rangers, stick with News Channel 6 for the latest updates on this situation.
Updated: May. 6, 2023 at 9:49 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
"It gives them the opportunity to live just outside the city limits but still within five miles of our town.”
Updated: May. 2, 2023 at 8:08 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill and KAUZ Digital Media Team
The City Council approved moving $4.7 million tax increment funds to the design and construction of South Wenonah Boulevard, a new road stretching from Maplewood to Kell Freeway.
Updated: May. 2, 2023 at 8:05 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill and KAUZ Digital Media Team
The Wichita Falls City Council approved a bid to repave the Lake Wichita parking lot.
Updated: May. 1, 2023 at 6:19 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
"We’re making a lot of great moves to get everybody back in place.”
Updated: Apr. 30, 2023 at 11:16 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
OPD caught Villalpando and said that he was arrested without incident.
Updated: Apr. 29, 2023 at 9:40 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
"Because of the King’s birthday everybody has a day off, and people across the street and are outside and just celebrating."
Updated: Apr. 24, 2023 at 2:22 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
Due to election laws, Wolf must remain on the ballot, and can be voted for during the election period.
Updated: Apr. 23, 2023 at 6:36 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
“We will travel anywhere and any place that will have us, and we’ve done that for over a decade now."
Updated: Apr. 22, 2023 at 7:11 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
"For Earth Day we’re talking about how to preserve the world."
Updated: Apr. 22, 2023 at 6:58 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
The event hosted over 100 athletes.
Updated: Apr. 22, 2023 at 6:42 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
"I hope that people will continue to come just to support all of our vendors here, support our non-profit"
Updated: Apr. 20, 2023 at 8:05 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
"We have two different spaces that can either accommodate larger events or smaller events."
Updated: Apr. 19, 2023 at 6:00 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
“Retail spaces for local mom and pop stores."
Updated: Apr. 18, 2023 at 6:13 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
“It’s a very... bigger than yourself experience, so you’re doing something bigger than just a job."
Updated: Apr. 18, 2023 at 5:48 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
"That month sounds good enough to table it to try to get the city’s citizens’ input on it."
Updated: Apr. 18, 2023 at 5:46 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
“This was a very important part of our goal, our strategic goal to complete the circle trail system."
Updated: Apr. 17, 2023 at 5:40 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
“The issue is, right now, we actually only know where there’s one scanner sitting at.”
Updated: Apr. 15, 2023 at 8:06 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
“We just love it, we love it... the more the merrier, we have a ball this time every year.”
Updated: Apr. 9, 2023 at 8:50 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
"I think back then people around here didn’t really take tornado warnings very seriously."
Updated: Apr. 8, 2023 at 6:48 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
"These events give people a chance to do something to enjoy and to have fun."
Updated: Apr. 8, 2023 at 6:33 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
“I love how they’re all different and individual and really reflect their personalities."
Updated: Apr. 4, 2023 at 4:39 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
Those funds will keep Health Department employees sustained for the next four and a half years.
Updated: Apr. 3, 2023 at 6:48 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
“Over 80% of the cost for those shield is being covered by grant funding."
Updated: Apr. 3, 2023 at 6:28 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
"Maybe the county can afford to pay a higher deductible to lower that premium down."
Updated: Apr. 2, 2023 at 5:09 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
"We had over 800 eggs out here and they were gone in about 10 minutes,”
Updated: Apr. 2, 2023 at 4:53 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
“It’s meant to be a community experience for everybody."
Updated: Apr. 2, 2023 at 4:23 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
"To give back to those that have given so much and sacrificed for this country is more than an honor.”
Updated: Mar. 28, 2023 at 5:48 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
“They’re our neighbors, they’re people who make up our community.”
Updated: Mar. 27, 2023 at 6:34 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
"We want to go back figure out what we can and answer what questions we can."
Updated: Mar. 26, 2023 at 9:13 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
“Those that knew Nick, they know what a special person that he was."
Updated: Mar. 25, 2023 at 7:16 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
"I tried it out at my birthday party with a bunch of his friends and they loved it.”
Updated: Mar. 21, 2023 at 5:32 PM CDT
|By Blake Hill
At the Wichita Falls City Council meeting on March 21, the council approved a new chiller, for storing their vaccines, was approved.