Awards
- National Press Club award "Can't You Hear the Whistle Blow?" (KPTV News 1988) This was also a finalist for a national Emmy.
- Peabody Award 1990 (KPTV Northwest Reports: "Mount St. Helens: A Decade Later")
- Northwest Regional Emmy Award for best investigative reporting (1994 KPTV Northwest Reports: "The Round File", with Gordon Coffin)
- In 2011 the Oregon Association of Broadcasters awarded Lars Larson with the Oregon Personality of the Year award
- Talkers Magazine ranked Larson as number 30 on their annual Heavy Hundred list
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