Steve Heimel
Managing EditorPerhaps the best known broadcasting voice in Alaska, Steve Heimel began his career at a radio station in rural Pennsylvania and worked his way up to two of the nation's Top Ten commercial media markets. He moved to public radio in 1974 for greater creative latitude and moved to Alaska in 1982, working for the statewide Alaska Public Radio Network for 32 years as Managing Editor, morning news announcer and host of the statewide “Talk of Alaska” call-in show.
He is a practicing visual artist and widely known as "The Old Bullrider," host of "The Truck Stop" vintage country music radio show that’s been running for 20 years. Heimel has been an instructor for the national training efforts of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio. He began working as KYUK’s Managing Editor in 2016.
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Fall distributions have more than doubled since the Alaska Native corporation started paying them out in 2014. -
A U.S. Supreme Court decision is impacting the enforcement of fishing regulations on the Kuskokwim River. For the first time in at least seven years, no… -
Governor Walker has ordered state flags lowered in memory of former state Attorney General Avrum Gross, who died in Southeast Alaska at the age of 82. It…
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The company that owns a chain of liquor stores in Anchorage has agreed to close one of them because of neighborhood complaints of problems caused by… -
If you see somebody inspecting under and around the Yuut Elitnaurviat Learning Center, it’s probably an employee of ChemTrack monitoring the fuel… -
Six former Ravn Air employees have now been arrested for stealing mail bound for the bush. According to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Anchorage, the… -
District 38 State Representative Zach Fansler says that even if resignations end up eroding the slim House Majority Coalition, sexual misconduct by… -
The City of Bethel says that no action is required from the city at this time in response to the indictment of multiple Bethel taxi drivers on bootlegging… -
President Trump's latest move to scale back Obama administration climate change initiatives is not impressing Alaska policymakers. In Bethel for a…
