Heather Abraham

Heather Abraham is the morning news anchor for Pittsburgh's KDKA. She grew up in Shaler Township, Pennsylvania as one of two daughters of a single mom, Beverly, who was a nurse. She graduated from Shaler Area High School in 2002. Her desire to get into news started there with the morning announcements. She continued her education at West Virginia University where she studied Broadcast News (Class of 2006). Heather joined KDKA as a full-time anchor in December 2010. Prior to 2010, she reported at News 12 Brooklyn, a 24-hour cable news station in New York City. Heather spent four years covering everything Brooklyn as a reporter, photographer, and editor. She says it was her time in Brooklyn that prepared her the most for the next step in her career. Throughout her career, she has been nominated for numerous Emmy's including one for a deeper look into the work of the Pittsburgh Police Vice Squad. She is passionate about breaking news and was honored with a Golden Quill award for her reporting in Homestead in about a 7-alarm fire. Her husband Frank is a City of Pittsburgh firefighter. They have two girls and welcomed a baby boy to their family in 2019.