Nate Hegyi
Reporter, Mountain West News BureauNate Hegyi is the Utah reporter for the Mountain West News Bureau, based at KUER. He covers federal land management agencies, indigenous issues, and the environment. Before arriving in Salt Lake City, Nate worked at Yellowstone Public Radio, Montana Public Radio, and was an intern with NPR's Morning Edition. He received a master's in journalism from the University of Montana.
When he's not doing radio, he likes to run, fish and listen to Bruce Springsteen tapes in his '99 Toyota Tacoma.
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This story was powered by America Amplified , a public radio initiative. Shelby, Mont. is home to a lot of wheat and barley fields, a decent high school...
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This story was powered by America Amplified , a public radio initiative. A small-town newspaper in the region that lost most of its staff due to the...
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This story is powered by America Amplified , a public radio initiative. On a recent rainy day in Rockville, Utah, cars roared down the highway as Dutch...
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This story was powered by America Amplified , a public radio initiative. Sitting at his desk within the small office of the Sandpoint Reader , a weekly...
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The U.S. sport climbing team’s hopes and aspirations are on pause after the Tokyo Olympics were postponed for a year due to the COVID–19 pandemic. “It’s…
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On a recent cold and rainy morning at Zion National Park in Southern Utah, Andrew Smith and Blake Cubria throw a blue tarp on top of their tent to keep…
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The National Congress of American Indians warned reporters in a press conference Friday that COVID-19 is a “recipe for a disaster” for tribal nations.…
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The Interior Department has announced it’s temporarily waiving entrance fees for recreation areas, national monuments and national parks. Secretary David…
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This story is powered by America Amplified, a public radio consortium.Beer is big business in the Mountain West.But as government officials begin shutting…
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Restaurants, bars and major ski resorts have begun to temporarily shut down across the Mountain West this week in an effort to curb the spread of…
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Support for our series Private Prison: Locking Down The Facts came from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit news organization that…
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Updated 9:40 a.m. MST 3/10/2020 Former presidential candidate Steve Bullock is officially running for a Montana Senate seat, making the Mountain West…