Scott Franz
Reporter, InvestigativeEmail: scott.franz@kunc.org
Scott Franz is a government watchdog reporter and photographer from Steamboat Springs. He spent the last seven years covering politics and government for the Steamboat Pilot & Today, a daily newspaper in northwest Colorado.
His reporting in Steamboat stopped a police station from being built in a city park, saved a historic barn from being destroyed and helped a small town pastor quickly find a kidney donor. His favorite workday in Steamboat was Tuesday, when he could spend many of his mornings skiing untracked powder and his evenings covering city council meetings.
Scott received his journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an outdoorsman who spends at least 20 nights a year in a tent. He spoke his first word, 'outside', as a toddler in Edmonds, Washington. Scott visits the Great Sand Dunes, his favorite Colorado backpacking destination, twice a year.
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The McCoy Family Funeral Home in Windsor lost its state license in October after state regulators alleged it was using subcontractors for its services without telling clients. -
Some cases of alleged misconduct at funeral homes can live in this database for months without gaining attention from the public.
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Steamboat Springs created three different zones to regulate short-term rentals, including a red zone where no new permits for those rentals can be issued. Three people living within that zone share their experiences with how the regulations have shaped their lives.
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An unlicensed funeral home was allegedly cremating bodies in Weld County. Then a fire led to chargesIt was almost midnight on a clear night in early April when police officer Chad Berry saw an unusual haze to the east in the town of Frederick. He followed the haze in this small Weld County town until he got to the Greenwood & Myers Mortuary.
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Six months ago, Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport Director Paul Anslow didn’t want to talk about leaded fuel. He said he had "zero control" over the airport's use of it. Today, the airport is racing to become the first in Colorado to completely phase the fuel out.
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For Westminster resident Charlene Willey, the sight of an unleaded fuel tanker truck parked near one of the runways at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport was a gratifying sight that’s been years in the making.
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Colorado says it’s ready to release its first batch of wolves and meet the demands of a 2020 ballot initiative where voters said they wanted the animal back on the landscape.Now all it needs is to convince another state to donate a few.
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City officials told residents their new Housing First program has helped house 26 people experiencing homelessness so far this year.
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A community group in Northern Colorado is raising concerns about a bill advancing in Congress that would require general aviation airports to keep selling leaded fuel indefinitely.
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Colorado's gun violence prevention office touts progress months after critical review from lawmakersSix months after lawmakers criticized a lack of progress, money is going out the door and some of the office’s harshest critics say they’re pleased with the progress being made around the state.
