| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner | Adams MultiMedia |
| Founder | W.A. McVicar |
| Founded | 1917 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 305 S. Arthur Pocatello, ID 83204 |
| City | Blackfoot, Idaho |
| Website | bcchron |
The Bingham News Chronicle is a weekly newspaper published in Blackfoot, Idaho. It is owned by Adams MultiMedia.
In 1917, W.A. McVicar founded the Evening Bulletin in Blackfoot, Idaho. [1] In 1926, McVicar sold the paper to John L. Brady, former editor of the Idaho State Journal . [2] Three years later the Evening Bulletin merged with the Blackfoot Republican to form the Daily Bulletin. [3] The Republican was founded by Byrd Trego. [4]
In 1933, Brady died from a heart attack. [5] His widow Mrs. Lee Crittenden Brady and Trego operated the Daily Bulletin until selling it to Edwin H. Paysen and John L. Rider in 1939. [6] W.R. Twining, publisher of the CrockettSignal of California, bought the paper in 1942. [7] He then closed the Signal. [8]
In 1947, Harold H. Smith, former owner of the Northside News at Jerome, Idaho, bought the Daily Bulletin from Twining. [9] In 1957, Smith sold the paper to Drury R. Brown, business manager at The Hutchinson News . [10] In 1960, the paper switched from an evening to a morning publication. [11] Around that time the paper's name was changed to the Blackfoot News. [12] In 1981, the paper was renamed to The Morning News. At that time its circulation was 6,700. [12]
Brown died on April 1, 1986. [13] Three months later his widow Catherine Brown sold The Morning News to Gloucester Suburban Newspapers Inc., of New Jersey. The company was co-owned by Peter Bernhard and William Dean Singleton, [14] and was affiliated with MediaNews Group. In September 1987, American Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Hollinger Inc., bought the paper. [15] At some point The Morning News was acquired by Horizon Publications, Inc. [16]
In 2018, KIFI-TV reported the paper was plagued with production issues and that nearly a dozen employees were fired or quit. [17] In 2019, Adams Publishing Group launched the Bingham County Chronicle, a five-day paper which competed with The Morning News. [18] In 2020, Adams acquired the Blackfoot Morning News and merged it with the Chronicle to form the Bingham News Chronicle. [19] [20] The paper went on hiatus in 2022 during the COVID-19 pandemic and resumed print publication as a weekly paper in 2025. [21]