This CBS47 weekend anchor is leaving after 2+ years. She’s headed back to Minnesota

After two and a half years covering news in the central San Joaquin Valley, Kirsten Mitchell is headed home to Minneapolis.

Mitchell, who started with CBS47/KSEE 24 in April 2019, can currently be seen as a weekend anchor and reporter, though this week she’s also being doing fill-in weather work for meteorologist Lauren Wallace.

Mitchell’s last day on air in Fresno is Nov. 3.

She made the announcement Monday in a post on Facebook: “This is a bittersweet goodbye,” she wrote.

“I’ve made lifelong friends here in California. Thank you for trusting me to share your stories — many I’ll remember forever.”

Mitchell regularly covered breaking news along with some of the state’s biggest new events, including the Creek Fire, drought and a mass shooting that killed four people.

Mitchell will be taking a job with WCCO-TV, the CBS-owned station in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was the station where she started her career as an intern in 2015.

“It’s an honor and privilege to have the opportunity to report in my hometown among some of the best journalists in the biz,” Mitchell wrote.

Prior to coming to Fresno, Mitchell worked as a multimedia journalist at WMBB, an ABC station in Panama City, Florida.