WAVE 3 TV Louisville, KY | Maira Ansari
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Maira Ansari joined WAVE 3 in February 2007 as a general assignment reporter, and anchored the weekend Sunrise show for several months before returning to full-time reporter duty.
She's thrilled to call Kentucky her new home. Maira has lived in Illinois her entire life and grew up in a small town in southern Illinois.
Before moving to Louisville, Maira worked as the Morning and Midday anchor at WICD-NewsChannel 15 in Champaign, IL. Maira enjoyed participating in community service while spending time in east-central Illinois. Everything from the American Diabetes Association, to the Girl Scouts, to participating in a corn eating contest!
Maira started her television career off in Springfield, IL, where she was the city beat reporter. Before that, she was an intern at WCIA, the CBS affiliate in Springfield. During her college career, Maira got a taste of what television journalism was all about. Everything from working in her college newsroom, to interning in Los Angeles, California at the entertainment new magazine show "EXTRA," and traveling abroad to study television in London, England. It was a fantastic experience that she says she was thrilled to enjoy.
Maira graduated from the Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. She got her Bachelors in the top rated Radio/Television program. She also received a minor in Marketing and Speech Communications. In 2002 Maira received her Master's degree from the University of Illinois at Springfield.
Maira has also traveled to more than 12 countries and speaks several different languages. She enjoys culture, great food, and fantastic friends! But, most of all, spending time with her cat PhiPhi.
If you have a story you would like Maira to cover, email her at mansari@wave3.com.
Every year, police and federal drug officials destroy thousands of methamphetamine labs. Not only do these labs produce a powerfully addictive drug, but they also endanger the safety of the surrounding community. Now the state of Kentucky is using a now there is new tool to fight it.
Two major events from Mother Nature left Kentuckiana in a mess. 769,000 people lost power and the two storms left behind over a billion dollars in damages. The September 2008 wind storm and the January 2009 ice storm caused the two largest power outages in Kentucky history and the Kentucky Public Service Commission says everyone can learn from the storms.
City officials are considering a law to limit the amount of time you can allow your car to idle while you're sitting it. The goal is to combat air pollution, but there are questions as to whether or not it's practical to try to enforce such a law in a city plagued with traffic problems. And there's actually a similar law already in place.
The fears of H1N1 continue as the virus proves especially dangerous to kids. That’s why Bullitt County parents accompanied their children to Bullitt Central High School Tuesday night for the first clinic targeted just for children.
More than 1,000 people are breathing a sigh of relief after employees at JBS Swift plant in Louisville’s Butchertown neighborhood found out they will not be losing their jobs. The jobs were on the line after Butchertown residents had been pushing for months to get the plant shut down after it violated a conditional use permit. Monday afternoon, the Board of Zoning Adjustment voted in favor of the plant.
A Rineyville woman is battling a brain tumor and now her insurance company. After trying just about everything to get rid of her excruciating headaches from her brain tumor, Melissa Tew thought she finally may have found a medical procedure to help. But at the last minute her insurance company said they wouldn't cover her procedure.
A viewer's complaint led to us to show you the shocking conditions at the now abandoned Louisville Regency mobile home park off of Manslick Road. The mobile home park is an eyesore to those who live nearby and we continued our attempts to find the property's owner.
Kentucky state workers are being targeted to help balance a major budget shortfall. This new plan could save the state $200 million on health insurance costs, but it could hurt the budgets of more than 150,000 Kentucky families.
Just one day after the shootings at Fort Hood, TX, Army officials at Fort Knox announced the opening of a new behavioral health center. The center will treat soldiers for mental stresses of military service.
The 32-year-old southern Indiana man accused of murdering his stepdaughter has faced a judge. Ryan Lee Shelby made his first court appearance in Spencer Circuit Court Thursday morning.
