[6][7][failed verification][8] Últimas Noticias was founded in Caracas on 16 September 1941 after the pro-freedom measures implemented by President Isaías Medina Angarita.

It initially bore the name Diario del Pueblo (the people's newspaper), and was created by Víctor Simone D'Lima, "Kotepa" Delgado, Vaughan Salas Lozada and Pedro Beroes.

[9] In June 2002, Ultimas Noticias began printing in colour on every page and launched its Sunday edition aimed to a more middle class audience.

[8] BBC Monitoring stated in 2019 that Últimas Noticias has "a predominantly pro-government stance";[13] in the same year, The Guardian characterized the paper as a "pro-Maduro tabloid".

[19][20] Últimas Noticias published investigative journalism that placed it at odds with the administration of Hugo Chávez in the August 2011 exposé by César Batiz of Derwick Associates, a firm accused of bribery and overbilling and the target of several lawsuits in the United States.

During the political crisis following the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election, Le Monde wrote that Carmela Longo, a journalist at the "pro-government" newspaper said she was fired shortly before she was arrested.