Local Alice journalist Melissa Treviño recently announced her departure from KRIS 6 News after serving for several years as the NBC affiliate’s “neighborhood news reporter” for Jim Wells, Duval, Brooks and Live Oak counties. Meanwhile, ABC affiliate KIII 3 News welcomed a new meteorologist to its weather team.

“After nearly three years of being in front of your television screens, I am moving on to a different part of my journalistic career,” Treviño said while standing in downtown Alice in a video posted to her official KRIS 6 Facebook account on June 28.

“It’s a dream come true for this rural town community reporter, to have the confidence that you guys have instilled in me to become a better journalist,” she added a moment later.

Treviño came to the Corpus Christi television station, which is owned by the E.W. Scripps Company, from the world of print journalism. Previously, she served as the managing editor of the Alice Echo – News Journal for nine years. Treviño was born and raised in the Coastal Bend — a graduate of San Diego High School and Texas A&M University – Kingsville, according to a biography on the KRIS 6 website. She started her tenure with KRIS 6 as a multimedia journalist before joining the weekend anchor desk, as well. Her last day was Tuesday, June 30. As for what comes next, Treviño declined to say in her video, but did hint that she won’t be going far.

“I’m not leaving Alice,” Treviño said.

Meanwhile, Corpus Christi’s ABC affiliate officially welcomed a new meteorologist to the 3NEWS Weather Team. The station’s 5 p.m. anchors, Mike Gillaspia and Leslie Adami, along with KIII Chief Meteorologist Carly Smith, officially introduced the Coastal Bend to Madison Hartin on Friday, July 3.

Hartin comes to KIII from another ABC affiliate, KAMC News in Lubbock, where she served as the morning forecaster and worked for five years before her departure in June. Previously, Hartin worked at the student news station MCTV while she studied communications and weather at Texas Tech University.

“I’ve been chasing tornadoes for the past eight years through college and working at my first market. And I’m so excited to be down here,” Hartin said during her official introduction to Coastal Bend audiences. She added that one of her favorite memories during her time in the Texas Panhandle was covering a severe weather event that generated “DVD-sized hail.”

Hartin’s arrival comes after a wave of shakeups at the 3NEWS weather desk. In December, Alan Holt left his position as chief meteorologist after 13 years. And in May, meteorologist Kristin Walla announced her departure after four years with the TEGNA-owned station for a job with KVUE in Austin.

Though she’s new to the Corpus Christi airwaves, Hartin is no stranger to the Coastal Bend, explaining to Smith how her mom is from Rockport, and how she’s looking forward to visiting the beach once the Fourth of July crowds clear out. Hartin will now serve as KIII’s weekend meteorologist and is slated to deliver her first forecast on Saturday, July 11’s 6 p.m. newscast.