Linda Alvarez is signing off

Linda Alvarez, a presence in local television news for the last 22 years, will be leaving her current duties at KCBS-TV Channel 2 and KCAL-TV Channel 9 on Sunday.

The 12-time Emmy winner, who became the first Latina to anchor weekday newscasts for an English-language television station in Los Angeles in 1986, joined KCBS as an anchor and reporter in 1993 and has worked for both CBS and KCAL since the stations became a duopoly five years ago, KCBS said Wednesday.

The Los Angeles native and UCLA graduate began her journalism career in 1973 in Chicago, eventually working her way back to her hometown after landing a job in 1985 with KNBC-TV.

-- Martin Miller