Mahealani Richardson is an anchor/reporter for KITV 4 News This Morning.

She joined the news team in September 2002. Before KITV 4, Mahealani worked at KGW (NBC) in Portland, Ore., as a general assignment reporter.

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She also reported at KGMB in Honolulu and got her introduction to television with internships at CBS News in New York, WCAU (CBS) in Philadelphia and the Joan Rivers Show in New York.

Mahealani was born and raised in Honolulu and graduated from Kamehameha Schools. She earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in communications with a concentration in marketing.

In 2004, Mahealani and the KITV 4 News Department won a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for her documentary "War with Iraq, Through the Eyes of Hawai'i's Kids." A Murrow is one of the most prestigious awards in broadcast journalism.

Mahealani says her most memorable stories include walking for four hours in freezing weather to cover the Inauguration of President Barack Obama, covering the arrival of the Polynesian voyaging canoe, Hokule'a, at Easter Island, non-stop live coverage of the wildfires and winter storms in the Northwest, getting close to the lava at Kilauea Volcano, and meeting the people of Hilo, Hawai'i during the Merrie Monarch Festival, the Super Bowl of hula.

Mahealani volunteers with several organizations including the Hawaiian Humane Society and the Salvation Army. She enjoys dancing, hiking, horseback riding, traveling and spending time with her husband, Mike and son, Sky Kanekoa.

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