Three weeks after South Carolina conducted its first firing squad execution, another condemned inmate has chosen to die the ...

A new law directs Utah State to overhaul its curriculum to highlight the Western canon and civil discourse. It’s part of a ...

Utah’s higher education commissioner says a new law won’t force all of the state’s public colleges and universities to adopt ...

A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and ...

Utah's university presidents have only two months to finalize the major budget cuts state lawmakers mandated. “Moving that ...

After over 40 years in Park City, Utah, the Sundance Film Festival has a new locale. Starting in 2027, the popular independent film-centric festival will move to another snow capped mountain town ...

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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Soon after the Trump administration took over in January, the Department of Homeland Security posted a statement bragging that it took immediate action “to stop the invasion at the southern ...

Los Angeles pulled off a rare feat in 1984: the city turned a profit on the Summer Olympics. It's looking like that may not be easy in 2028. And that could come at a bad time for the city.