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 patriarch of the West Slope’s Copper Creek Pack, the first formed since reintroduction, died last week just days after officers captured the animal with plans to move the family to prevent livestock attacks. Parks and Wildlife said Monday the wolf had a severe leg injury and was in poor health before he was captured. -
Colorado lawmakers have repeatedly turned down some popular forms of early detection, instead spending millions of dollars on helicopters and other gadgets to fight fires. Legislators also point to a little-known military program run by the National Guard that they say is doing a better job at defending the state. -
Gov. Jared Polis is holding a briefing on the Alexander Mountain, Stone Canyon, and Quarry fires at a fire station in Loveland. -
Libertarian activist Jon Caldara has withdrawn a ballot initiative to repeal Senate Bill 157, which the legislature passed in March to exempt state lawmakers from parts of the Open Meetings Law. -
Conservationists are urging patience and warning that removing any of the 11 wolves in Colorado so early in the voter-mandated restoration could hurt the chances of success.
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Conservation groups are celebrating the approval of the wolverine restoration bill. They see Colorado as a key piece of a strategy to ensure the survival of the extremely solitary member of the weasel family. -
Five of the eight cities and counties serving on the so-called community noise roundtable have hit eject, citing a lack of progress and trust in the airport's owner, Jefferson County. The turbulence had been building for months. -
Colorado’s new wolves are drawing a big following — not without some controversy. Today on In The NoCo, KUNC’s Scott Franz discusses recent wolf milestones and tension on the Western Slope, and whether wolves might one day become a tourist attraction. -
Airport noise group on verge of cancellation after Louisville ejects over lack of trust and progressCiting frustrations with airport-owner Jefferson County over a lack of progress in reducing or addressing airport noise, the Louisville City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to join a growing effort to dissolve the roundtable.
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Democratic state lawmakers on Tuesday unveiled the results of a survey they use to help decide the fate of dozens of bills competing against each other for state funding. Thanks to a recent lawsuit, there's something different about it this year. For the first time since the survey was introduced to the Capitol in 2019, lawmakers’ votes aren’t being kept secret.
