| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Adams Publishing Group |
| Founder(s) | Charles Harris |
| Founded | 1895 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 843 Washington St, Montpelier, ID 83254 |
| OCLC number | 13168790 |
| Website | hjnews |
The News-Examiner is a weekly newspaper published in Montpelier, Idaho. [1]
On March 2, 1895, Charles Edward Harris published the first edition of The Montpelier Examiner. [2] In 1903, C. A. Brewster and Dr. H. M. Holbrook became the proprietors. [3] In 1904, a cooperation headed by C.E. Wright took ownership. [4] In 1908, L.G. Bradley purchased the business, but was later bought out a year later by Clyde Hansen [5] who then later resold it to Wright. [6] [7]
In 1920, H.M. Nelson, of Pocatello, purchased the paper. [8] He died a decade later and his widow and children continued operating the Examiner. [9] In 1937, Mable C. Nelson sold the Examiner to W. Jerome Taylor. [10] A week later Taylor merged his paper with the Bear Lake Valley News, owned by H. A. and A.M. Robinson, to form the The News-Examiner. The first issue was published Sept. 16, 1937. [11]
The Robinsons left at some point and the Taylors continued to operate the paper until selling it in 1974 to L.W. "Bill" Thompson, Wayne Bell and Walter Ross. [12] All the owners had retired by the time Ross sold The News-Examiner, and several other they started or acquired, to a company called Sun News Inc. in 1999. [13] The business later became SWI News, which sold the all of its papers in Idaho and Utah to Pioneer News Group in 2007. [14] A decade later the company sold its 22 papers to Adams Publishing Group in 2017. [15]