The prairie dresses, walled compounds and distrust of outsiders that were once hallmarks of two towns on the Arizona-Utah ...

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

People gather on a cold evening for a Christmas tree lighting on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Hildale, Utah. In this former haven for a polygamous religious sect on the ...

Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, are changing after years under Warren Jeffs, the former leader of a polygamous sect.

State and federal authorities and the Mormon polygamist sect headquartered along the Arizona-Utah border seem finally headed for a showdown. So far, there have been no reports of violence in the towns ...

FILE - This Nov. 15, 2010 file photo shows polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs appearing in court in West Jordan, Utah. An attorney for local law enforcement in Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, ...

HILDALE, Utah | As polygamist leader Warren Jeffs awaited his fate in a Texas prison, he sent an order to his followers on the Utah-Arizona border: Build me a new compound. Hundreds of men worked ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah — A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday in Salt Lake City charges 11 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints with conspiracy to commit food stamp ...

ST. GEORGE — In a new court filing, the Utah Attorney General’s Office has asked a judge to appoint someone to take over a water utility in the polygamous border towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado ...