Tanner Deleon
Multimedia Journalist
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Tanner DeLeon started at News Channel 6 as a reporter in May 2021.
Tanner grew up outside of Houston in Pearland, Texas. He’s a die-hard Astros and Cowboys fan who graduated from Oklahoma State University. He did play-by-play and color commentary for high school baseball, football and basketball as well as OSU football.
Outside of his passion for all things sports, Tanner loves exploring Texoma with his cat, Aang.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By Tanner Deleon
In the 26 years the building has been around, city staff said they have only made minor upgrades and it is due for a big one.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By Tanner Deleon
It’s being built on Seymour Highway. The concern is how the driveway comes out onto Turtle Creek Road.
Updated: Dec. 2, 2022 at 6:24 PM CST
|By Tanner Deleon
There will be multiple city departments and nonprofit agencies at the meeting to answer questions.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2022 at 6:18 PM CST
|By Tanner Deleon
Local law enforcement is asking travelers to drive with caution so everyone can make it to their destination safely.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2022 at 5:38 PM CST
|By Tanner Deleon
This matching grant is extremely important because of the struggles they are having with keeping their shelves full.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 6:52 PM CST
|By Tanner Deleon
Construction is almost finished for their new facility.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 12:43 PM CST
|By Tanner Deleon
The City of Wichita Falls is less than one percent away from entering stage one of the drought plan.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 6:52 PM CST
|By Tanner Deleon
The students we talked to are from Italy, Spain and the Netherlands.
Updated: Nov. 15, 2022 at 6:56 PM CST
|By Tanner Deleon
“The way he wanted to present it today, kind of opened the door for what is my opinion a civil service violation."
Updated: Nov. 15, 2022 at 6:41 PM CST
|By Tanner Deleon
Stage one begins once combined lake levels get below 65%.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2022 at 12:45 PM CST
|By Tanner Deleon
Studies show Texas has the second-highest number of human trafficking cases in the U.S.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 6:43 PM CST
|By Tanner Deleon
Winfield United held a ground breaking event Wednesday morning.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2022 at 6:34 PM CST
|By Tanner Deleon
Nearly 21,000 Wichita County voters weighed in during early voting, accounting for only 26.6% of all registered voters.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 6:49 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
All they are left with are the memories they made with Jose Medina.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 6:44 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
"It grows our economic base because you have more jobs, higher wages, more benefits, which brings up the expendable income that we have in Wichita Falls.”
Updated: Oct. 31, 2022 at 6:54 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
This initiative will have businesses and homes lit up in a shining green light.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2022 at 6:29 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon and KAUZ Digital Media Team
Witnesses said the suspect and victim had a contentious relationship.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2022 at 6:50 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
The Kate LLC building that most people know as the Highlander is getting the space above the restaurant turned into an apartment complex.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2022 at 6:41 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
“We have got a couple of eyewitnesses who have placed a person on scene.”
Updated: Oct. 24, 2022 at 6:41 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
There were only four deadly crashes in 2020 and eight in 2021.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2022 at 6:36 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
It has been over 20 years since someone not by the name of Woody Gossom was the judge of Wichita County, but come Nov. 8, that will change.
Updated: Oct. 18, 2022 at 6:14 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
James Frank has held this position for the last 10 years.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2022 at 6:47 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
“Every child, every life is important."
Updated: Oct. 14, 2022 at 4:58 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
If the propositions pass, they expect to finish construction by May of 2023.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2022 at 6:43 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
Vernon police say just before 7pm, 54-year-old Bradford Allen Thompson shot Andre Sandoval multiple times.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2022 at 7:16 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
The project will have distribution lines carrying water from U.S. 287 to north of 369, practically halfway between Burkburnett and Iowa Park.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2022 at 7:10 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
They are very close to getting both new high schools closed in with a lot of the steel structure and concrete walls already up.
Updated: Oct. 10, 2022 at 6:30 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
“There’s rats, snakes you name it living in those piles."
Updated: Oct. 5, 2022 at 6:50 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
Everything ran smoothly this time around.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2022 at 5:54 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
Some voters are still skeptical on if they can trust the voting process.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2022 at 6:07 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
The city is hoping to offset the big impact the pandemic had on nonprofit organizations.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2022 at 4:35 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
Oncor has proposed around an 11% increase to the City of Wichita Falls residents.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2022 at 6:49 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
“You don’t want to wait until an emergency happens or a catastrophe and then start moving."
Updated: Sep. 29, 2022 at 6:56 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
The increase is due to inflation.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2022 at 6:37 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
Farmers in Wichita County are saying this is one of the toughest years they have had for growing crops.
Updated: Sep. 26, 2022 at 6:23 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
Crews will be doing major work on the elevators starting Wednesday.
Updated: Sep. 26, 2022 at 11:14 AM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon and KAUZ Digital Media Team
The Wichita County Commissioners Court has agreed to reinstate a burn ban for Wichita County.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2022 at 3:47 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
The original house on the Hammon Ranch was ready to be torn down before a group came together to rebuild it.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2022 at 6:52 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
The city received the prestigious Water Partners: Water Systems Helping Water Systems award.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2022 at 5:42 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
The developers believe this could be a gateway to bigger and better things on the east side of Wichita Falls.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 4:39 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
The Wichita Adult Literacy Council is a program that works hard to boost the literacy skills for adults in our area.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2022 at 12:57 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
Staff said they’re excited to be able to better help children transitioning into the foster care community.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2022 at 5:31 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
“Since we have started it in 2018, it has returned over eight billion gallons of water back to Lake Arrowhead."
Updated: Sep. 7, 2022 at 12:41 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
A non-profit organization is working towards building a chapel at the James V. Allred unit, and hopes Texoma Gives will give them the help they need to reach their fundraising goal.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2022 at 5:38 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
They went about the process differently this year which officials say helped move the process along more swiftly.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2022 at 5:37 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
Instead of hitting the citizens with a big increase, they have elected to divide it into two years and split the increase to about 5%.
Updated: Sep. 5, 2022 at 5:39 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
Grady has volunteered at the prison since 1996 and has seen what services from the chapel have done for the inmates.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2022 at 7:05 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
Officials said instances like this are tricky because it is obvious rain is needed, but it ends up being a give and take situation.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2022 at 4:25 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
The Arts Council is excited to have this program back in place.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 6:37 PM CDT
|By Tanner Deleon
“We have 632 members that are out there and we need them back.”
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