The Latest Breaking News from Utah

Man accused of falsely confessing to killing Charlie Kirk faces up to 15-year sentence

George Zinn, 71, further admitted to possessing child sexual abuse material and pleaded no contest to allegations

The Guardian - US · Jan 30

Sundance Film Festival to name 2026 award winners

The juries of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival will announce this year’s award winners Friday morning in Park City, Utah

The Independent UK · Jan 30

A timeline of two towns on the Arizona-Utah border once controlled by a polygamist sect

The neighboring towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, have transformed in the years since Warren Jeffs led a polygamous sect there

The Independent UK · Jan 30

Joseph Gordon-Levitt blasts ‘amoral’ AI companies as danger to children

Joseph Gordon-Levitt has slammed “amoral” artificial intelligence (AI) companies that pose a danger to children in an address in the Capitol in Utah.

The Independent UK · Jan 28

How Mormon women fought a Republican-led redistricting initiative in Utah – and won

A 9,000-member group’s legal win could flip a congressional seat to Democrats in the midterms

The Guardian - US · Jan 28

‘Doomsday mom’ convinced world was ending, abducts children; kids found in Croatia orphanage

A Utah woman obsessed with apocalyptic beliefs has been arrested after allegedly abducting her four young children and taking them to Europe, where the children were later found living in a state-run children’s home in Croatia.

The Times of India · Jan 28

New dinosaur fossils found under a parking lot reveal a 100-year-old secret in Colorado

You never really expect to stumble across dinosaur bones while fixing up a parking lot, but that’s exactly what happened at Dinosaur National Monument, on the border of Colorado and Utah. Workers were just doing some routine upgrades near the Quarry Exhibit Hall when they hit a layer of sandstone…

The Times of India · Jan 28

Utah mom who feared ‘end times’ arrested after taking kids to Croatia

The children have been placed in foster care as their father works to bring them back home

The Independent UK · Jan 27

‘The world is hurting right now’: politics and protest hit the Sundance film festival

A conflicted mood has lingered over Utah’s long-running film festival with premieres and parties continuing but stars speaking out against government cruelty

The Guardian - US · Jan 27

‘What they’re doing is the worst of humanity’: Sundance festival stars back anti-ICE protest

Elijah Wood joined protest in Utah’s Park City in memory of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, while Natalie Portman said what is happening is ‘absolutely horrific’

The Guardian - UK · Jan 26