Foss won six Emmys, two for best anchor, named media personality of the year, and acquired the highest “Q” rating as the best-known news reader in the local market.
In 2005, she was inducted into the Silver Circle by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for her 25 years of journalistic excellence by the NATAS Mid-America Chapter.
[1] Before her work at KSDK, she began her television career at KCMO-TV (now KCTV), in Kansas City, Missouri.
Foss was named vice president for public relations for the utility company Ameren on February 21, 2007.
Mayor Francis Slay officially made December 28, 2006, as "Karen Foss Day" in St. Louis.