The ''Big Spring Herald'' is a newspaper based in

Big Spring, Texas Big Spring is a city in and the county seat of Howard County, Texas, United States, at the crossroads of U.S. Highway 87 and Interstate 20. With a population of 27,282 as of the 2010 census, it is the largest city between Midland to the west, A ...

, covering the Howard County area of

West Texas West Texas is a loosely defined region in the U.S. state of Texas, generally encompassing the arid and semiarid lands west of a line drawn between the cities of Wichita Falls, Abilene, and Del Rio. No consensus exists on the boundary betwee ...

. It published on weekday afternoons and Sunday mornings. It is owned by Horizon Publications Inc. The ''Herald'' was founded as a weekly in 1904 by brothers-in-law Tom Jordan and W.G. Hayden and became a daily in 1928. In 1929, Harte-Hanks Newspapers bought the paper. In 2001,

Community Newspaper Holdings CNHI, LLC (formerly Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.) is an American publisher of newspapers and advertising-related publications throughout the United States. The company was formed in 1997 by Ralph Martin,

put the ''Herald'' up for sale along with 30 other properties, including fellow West Texas papers the ''

Borger News-Herald The ''Borger News–Herald'' is a newspaper based in Borger, Texas, covering the Hutchinson County area of West Texas. Owned by Horizon Publications Inc., it publishes Monday through Saturday. The newspaper was founded as the ''Hutchinson County ...

'' and '' Sweetwater Reporter''. Horizon Publications bought the three West Texas papers in 2003.

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* Daily newspapers published in Texas Howard County, Texas Publications established in 1904 {{Texas-newspaper-stub