Emily Florez, who worked as a reporter at KUTV, Ch. 2, before leaving for Chicago in 2012, will start at KTVX on Monday, co-anchoring ABC4′s 5, 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts, KTVX announced Friday.
Florez takes the spot held for seven years by Kim Fischer, who left the ABC affiliate in November for a job with a Utah educational technology company.
Florez recently left a job as reporter at WMAQ in Chicago, taking maternity leave in February and then announcing she and her family were moving back to Utah. She and her husband have two children.