Lucy Peterson
ReporterLucy Peterson is a staff writer for the Aspen Daily News, where she covers the city of Aspen, the Aspen School District, and more. Peterson joined the Aspen Public Radio newsroom in December as part of a collaboration the station launched in 2024 with the Aspen Daily News to bring more local government coverage to Aspen Public Radio’s listening audience.
Peterson was born and raised in Denver. She moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where she studied journalism, political science, and French at the University of Kansas. While in college, she worked for her school newspaper, the University Daily Kansan, interned at BusinessDen as a Dow Jones News Fund business reporting intern, and covered the Kansas Statehouse as a reporting intern for the Kansas City Star. She moved to Aspen to work for The Aspen Times before joining the team at the Aspen Daily News.
She’s come to Aspen every summer for as long as she can remember to camp, but fell in love with skiing during her first winter in the Roaring Fork Valley.
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The Aspen School District Board of Education signaled it would likely support a potential ballot measure that would allow the state to retain additional tax dollars to bolster education spending. -
RFTA’s fare-free pilot boosted ridership among new and occasional riders, but leaders say adjusting fare structures — not expanding free fares — is the focus for long-term growth. -
The city of Aspen’s environmental health and sustainability department is launching a slew of grants, rebates and incentives as federal programs disappear. -
Aspen police boosted bike-safety enforcement 50% in 2025, contacting more riders as e-bike use grows, while traffic crashes fall but bike and pedestrian injuries persist, city data show trends. -
On today's newscast: Applicants for the Garfield County library board made their cases in front of commissioners and library trustees on Friday; one of Colorado’s reintroduced wolves has been captured and returned to Grand County after taking a long trip down to New Mexico; and the fungus behind a deadly bat disease has now been found in every western state. Tune in for these stories and more. -
Residents of Woody Creek Plaza pressed APCHA for action over a convicted sex offender living near children, but the board says it lacks authority as the case heads to a Dec. 30 hearing. -
After COP30, Climate Curve’s Jacquelyn Francis says climate action still lacks funding and behavior change — and believes Aspen’s influence can help drive solutions. -
Aspen OKs updates to its short-term rental program, streamlining rules and creating a temporary permit, but delays decisions on estate-planning transfer exemptions. -
Revenue to support schools, fire emergency services, early childhood education -
The Aspen-Pitkin County Housing Authority has decided against making changes to its rightsizing program, after earlier this year weighing ways to incentivize the program that has been used only three times.
