With almost a half-century of TV journalism experience in the nation’s capital, NBC4’s Pat Collins likely could have brought his snow stick in from the cold and become a news anchor. No chance ...

NBC4 Washington Legend Pat Collins Is Retiring. Here Are Some of His Most Memorable Moments There's no one who does it quite like the grape, the Newsman, NBC4's resident beat poet: Pat Collins.

Pat Collins, ‘beat poet’ of local news, will retire after 49 years. December 7, 2022. 5 min. Pat Collins, longtime reporter for WRC/NBC4, in the newsroom. (Courtesy of WRC) By Paul Farhi.

CHANG: Perhaps more than anything, Pat Collins loved to cover a good snowstorm. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "NBC4 WASHINGTON") COLLINS: Finally, we get a snow of consequence - finally, a stick-worthy snow.

Pat Collins caught with the artist formally known as Banana Man. When Pat Collins talks about his career, he talks about the people. The people whose lives he covered and whose losses he documented.

Pat Collins’s famous snow stick is lighter than you might expect, says NBC4 correspondent Tommy McFly. But the burden of carrying it is heavy indeed. McFly took temporary charge of the Washington-area ...

While our dear, former reporter Pat Collins lives it up in retirement, we grabbed our Snow Stick to measure Monday's winter storm, which brought 6 to 10 inches of snow to the D.C. area.