The actor, who died on Tuesday at 89, spent much of his life working to preserve the serene natural beauty of Utah, even as his Sundance Film Festival brought Hollywood glamour to the state.
The authorities evacuated residents in the Magna neighborhood of Salt Lake County while searching the home of two men accused of placing an incendiary device underneath a news media van.
F.B.I. leaders touted the immense federal deployment assigned to find the assassin. But their big break came with a single tip — from the suspect’s own family.
Tyler Robinson, the man accused of shooting Charlie Kirk, was a stellar student in high school, raised in a Republican home in Southwest Utah and training to be an electrician.
Millions of people saw the brief exchange between the right-wing political activist and a liberal TikToker after footage of the assassination spread like wildfire across social media.
A woman unexpectedly went into labor at the desert festival. Within minutes, a neonatal nurse, an OB-GYN, a pediatric doctor and other attendees filled her camper.