Dick Nourse has gained the distinction of being Mountain America's most watched news anchor. He and weatherman Bob Welti and sportscaster Paul James were together longer than any other news team in America. Nourse, Welti, and James were inducted into the Utah Broadcast Hall of Fame in May of 2000.

In addition to his duties as anchor, he has worked on many news assignments for KSL. In 1967, he toured Vietnam for one month interviewing military personnel from Utah to get their impressions of the war. This trip has been the high point of his journalistic career. He returned to Vietnam 30 years later-in 1997-to renew acquaintances in that country and attempt to resolve some of his own unrest since the war.

Throughout his career, Dick Nourse has maintained his role as a leader in the community. In 1977, he was listed as one of America's Outstanding Young Men. He has served such organizations as the Society of Professional Journalists; Camp Kostopulos and the United Cerebral Palsy Foundation; the Community Council of Cottonwood Hospital; the Great Salt Lake Development Committee; and the Utah Air Force Association. He has been honorary chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Association and the American Cancer Society and president of the Cottonwood Alta View Hospital Health Care Foundation. Dick is also an honorary board member of the newly organized and remodeled Cancer Wellness House. In 1989, he was honored by President Reagan as an outstanding survivor of cancer. He served his country in the United States Army and Air Force and is active in various veteran's activities.

He is married to Debra M. Peterson Nourse, formerly of Logan. He has a daughter, Giana, and a son, Dayne, and three step-children, Tiffani, Brittani and Deryck.

Aside from his obligations and responsibilities, Dick golfs, lifts weights, and is an avid sailor.

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