KPIX news anchor announces his retirement

KPIX news anchor Ken Bastida, a Bay Area television fixture for 31 years, has announced his retirement. Bastida informed viewers during Tuesday night’s 11p.m. newscast. He will depart Channel 5at the end of October. A native of San Francisco and seventime Emmy Awardwinner, Bastida covered some of the Bay Area’s biggest news stories during his tenure, including the 1991Oakland Hills Fire, the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214, the San Bruno gas explosion, the Oakland Ghost Ship fire and this year’s deadly VTA maintenance yard shooting in San Jose.