Utah Gov. Spencer Cox walked the press line for the Sundance Film Festival premiere of “Train Dreams” at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday night. “It’s going to be an amazing festival, 41 years of Sundance here in Utah,” Cox said. “I think this is going to be the best one ever.”

In his address, Cox spoke about being a united state building toward a stronger and more prosperous future. Cox, who was recently elected to his second term in office, highlighted five key areas his office would focus on to move toward this vision.

Gov. Spencer Cox hopes lawmakers will charge forward with his plan to bring more energy production to Utah this legislative session.

As the 2025 session starts, Gov. Spencer Cox said two priority issues in his view are bolstering energy production and trimming taxes.

We must build,” Governor Spencer Cox declared in his annual State of the State address to the people of Utah, calling for major infrastructure changes.

In the modern context, "built here" means not just embracing infrastructure and housing growth, Cox said, but "axing every tax that we can," supporting Utahns who want to build businesses, farms or families, making the state "inclusive to every lawful newcomer" and "still doing the big things — the hard things — in our lives and in this session."

Governor Spencer Cox said he has made changes on his own farm to save water as Utah grapples with drought and saving the Great Salt Lake.

State of the State speech, governor says ‘negativity’ has ‘replaced America’s culture of building.’ So he urged Utah to ‘stay weird’ and build infrastructure, technology and ‘resilient’ people.

Following a slate of executive orders by President Donald Trump, Utah's GOP Gov. Spencer Cox questioned the constitutionality of some of the president's actions.

In his State of the State address to the Legislature, Gov. Spencer Cox outlines how to tackle Utah's affordable housing crisis.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox outlines priorities on housing, energy and infrastructure during his 2025 State of the State address.

As the 2025 session starts, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said two priority issues in his view are bolstering energy production and trimming taxes.