Ally Kadlubar
News Reporter
Waco, Texas
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Ally Kadlubar is from Lake Charles, Louisiana, and joins KWTX as the morning reporter.
Although she is a May 2022 graduate from LSU in Baton Rouge, Ally is an award-winning reporter with over three-and-a-half years of experience. She started her journalism career by joining LSU’s news station, Tiger TV. There, she discovered her passion for reporting.
Her reporting skills have not gone unnoticed. She was the recipient of the 2022 Louisiana Association of Broadcasters Student Broadcaster of the Year Award. She has placed in the top 20 for the national Hearst Journalism Awards in TV Features for two years in a row. Ally has also won and been nominated for Society of Professional Journalists regional awards and the Suncoast Student Production Awards.
While Ally is grateful to be recognized for the awards, her main priority is making an impact on her community with her storytelling.
She had the opportunity to help make a national impact by interning for NBC’s TODAY Show in the summer of 2021.
During her last semester at LSU, she reported for Baton Rouge station, WBRZ Channel 2. She worked as a part-time multimedia journalist and news apprentice while taking 15 hours of classes, reporting for the journalism school’s Statehouse Bureau, and working for LSU’s news station.
Ally is known for telling unique, impactful stories. Her broadcast story about how COVID-19’s shuttering of casinos affected local economies received statewide attention as well as her story about how segregated cemeteries are still present in Louisiana. Ally has reported on the housing market, inflation, performing arts, industries, hurricanes, legislation, shortages, tragedies, and more.
While Ally is new to Waco, Waco is not new to Ally. She grew up visiting family in Waco and West, Texas, and she has many fond memories of her trips to the area, including attending “Westfest” and getting kolaches from the Czech Stop. Reporting in Waco makes her feel closer to home.
If you have any unique, impactful story ideas you would like to share with Ally, please give her a call or email her.
Work Phone: 254-633-4009
Email: ally.kadlubar@kwtx.com
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Midway ISD student at South Bosque Elementary School, Michael Montague, is sharing his journey of battling leukemia on Tik Tok while receiving overwhelming support from his community.
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Street Dog Café is on the list of local restaurants to support this weekend for Keep Waco Beautiful’s Waco Restaurant Weekend. The café recently opened its doors to the community on Elm Ave. in East Waco, providing coffee as well as a mixture of sweet and savory treats while also aiming to boost support for pet adoption with the Humane Society of Central Texas.
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Elm Avenue, a historic road in East Waco, is finally completely open to through traffic after more than four years of construction to revitalize the area and bring growth and development.
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A new early learning center broke ground Tuesday off of Chapel Road, addressing the growth in the area and the need for more child care services.
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Waco ISD is inviting students, staff, community members and alumni to celebrate the progress of the new Tennyson Middle School campus with its tradition of signing the final beam of the new structure.
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University High School’s Mariachi Band invited KWTX to one of its rehearsals for an upcoming Hispanic Heritage Month performance.
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Groesbeck ISD students celebrated the grand opening of the district’s new café, the Red Goat Café, which provides a welcoming learning environment for students with disabilities.
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The Bell County Public Health District is asking the community to participate in its first health survey to find out what people in the community are struggling with and hoping to achieve health-wise.
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Ahead of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Cen-Tex Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is addressing safety of Hispanic-owned businesses in the community with the help of Waco PD.
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Central Texas school district, Academy ISD, is boosting the energy in the stadium with its new multi-color, multi-setting light show.
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As many Central Texas schools are approaching Homecoming season, McGregor High School floral design classes are working hard to make more mums than ever for students in the district.
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Temple Fire and Rescue will be hosting its annual remembrance ceremony Monday to honor those who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001.
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As National Hispanic Heritage Month begins next week, Waco ISD continues to teach its students to embrace their culture and heritage with growing immersive language programs.
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As new housing developments continue to pop up throughout Central Texas, a new project in is aiming to boost the economic momentum and growth of Holland, a small city in Bell County.
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Fire crews across Central Texas continue to be in high demand as wildfires rage throughout the state, and the Belton Community Emergency Response Team is aiming to get some more hands on deck when major fires or any natural disaster strikes.
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Alumni of the West Junior Historians, the West High School organization which celebrates Czech culture, are reuniting after 50 years to perform at Westfest Saturday.
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Volunteer Fire Departments across Central Texas have been battling wildfires nonstop over the summer, exhausting fire crews and their equipment.
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The Toasted Yolk Café, a brunch restaurant, officially opened its doors in downtown Waco Monday after anticipation grew following more than a month of delays.
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Central Texas high school football season has officially started, but as players take the field, there is an issue on the sidelines where the area is not seeing enough officials.
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Many Central Texas school districts are implementing mentor programs for first-year teachers that provides guidance and support as they begin their first year of teaching, and, for a Killeen ISD mentor-teacher pair, the first-year teacher is being mentored by her former eighth grade science teacher.
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While many Central Texas bars and restaurants host karaoke nights, a bar and grill in West has a regular karaoke participant who has been sharing his passion for the activity for decades.
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Even though the district is staffed for the school year, Temple ISD is starting a program to invest in employees to establish new educators within the district.
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The expansion project of the Cove House, a nonprofit emergency homeless shelter, is on hold after issues with a gas line prevented crews from starting the demolition process that will eventually create additional housing for families and people who are experiencing homelessness in the area.
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School districts across the region are approaching the advancing technological tools in a variety of ways.
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As Midway ISD students begin the school year Tuesday, Midway Middle School students will be walking into a completely renovated campus, marking the completion of the district’s 2019 bond project to build, renovate and advance schools across the district.
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Waco ISD students are strolling into the school year sporting a variety of clear backpacks as the district enforced the safety measure for every campus to start implementing the policy on the first day of school Monday.
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A brand new campus for Waco ISD’s G.W. Carver Middle School is finally opening with the start of the school year Monday, nearly two years after a massive fire burned the historic school to the ground the summer before the start of the 2021 school year.
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O.G.’s School of Hair Design is continuing its back-to-school event for free haircuts this week, encouraging those who get haircuts to donate 25 cents.
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Some Central Texas school districts are beginning the school year this week with a four-day academic calendar in hopes of increasing teacher staffing and decreasing staff and student burnout.
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Central Texas students are getting ready for the upcoming football season, practicing most of the summer in the heat, and the high temperatures are not keeping Temple High School band members from kicking their practice into high gear ahead of the school year.
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Midway ISD is collecting results from a survey that the district sent in late July to evaluate residents’ understanding of tax rates and whether or not people would support an election to adjust the tax rate.
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Central Texas school districts are advising drivers to use caution around school buses as bus drivers will be on the roads to pick up and drop off students when the school year begins.
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Baylor University is teaming up with Texas-based compost company, Moonshot Compost, to help divert food waste from piling into Waco’s almost-packed landfill, transforming the waste into compost, a nutrient-rich type of soil.
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The West Chamber of Commerce crowned its 91st Miss West Saturday evening, hoping to enhance and grow the pageant along with the growing West community.
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A Veteran who served at Fort Cavazos, formerly known as Fort Hood, is continuing his journey to walk around the entire city of Killeen, in hopes of discovering everything the city offers while smiling and waving to drivers.
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The Midway All Stars Softball Team is getting ready for another big game Wednesday as they advance in the Little League Southwest Regional Tournament at the George W. Bush Little League Leadership Training Center in Waco.
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It does not look like much currently, but soon, it will be a 1.1 mile trail running along East Waco Drive from Sherman Street to Gholson Road.
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Auto-body and glass repair shops in McLennan County are still struggling to keep up with high demand of vehicles with hail damage after the hail storms that pummeled the area from April to June.
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A handful of small, family-owned businesses in Waco are still recovering from recent burglaries over the past month, losing hundreds to thousands of dollars in cash and damages.
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Several small businesses in Waco are teaming up to host a Barbie-themed party in a pink a frame Airbnb in Lacy Lakeview to celebrate the ‘Barbie’ movie’s premiere Friday.
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Colorful, stacked containers at Fourth and Jackson will soon be filled with local businesses and hotel rooms overlooking downtown Waco.
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The Levitt AMP Waco Concert Series launched its first round of 10 free concerts this summer on Bridge Street Plaza in East Waco, generating an abundance of support and giving local artists opportunities to present their talents.
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Multiple Central Texas residents are at the hospital with injuries following a fire at an apartment complex in Lacy Lakeview.
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The Lions Club Park Senior Center in Killeen is hosting its second annual free Senior Prom for the community Friday night to help bring seniors together in the area.
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Central Texas law enforcement agencies are battling recent reports of scammers posing as officers to get personal information and money as concerns about growing artificial intelligence software increases.
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Rogue Media Network, a recording studio in Waco, is relocating to the tallest skyscraper in Waco, the Alico Building.
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The board must decide whether to keep or sell the property where MCC’s Vet Tech program is located, and where locals take equine and animal training courses.
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A Waco bakery, Simply Delicious Bakery, is finally open after overcoming months of challenges with a contractor and dealing with permit and inspection delays with the City of Waco.
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The Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce is hosting the annual TriWaco triathlon Sunday with more than 900 athletes expected to compete, battling the heat but crossing the finish line at the recently remodeled historic Suspension Bridge.
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Shepherd’s Heart, a faith-based food pantry in Central Texas, is opening a mobile distribution site in Bellmead Wednesday.
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