''Sonoran News'' is a free
newspaper
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in
Cave Creek, Arizona
Cave Creek is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. It is part of the Phoenix metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population of the town was 4,892.
History
Cave Creek was settled in 1870 by soldiers on horseback from Fo ...
, United States.
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/ref> With a circulation of over 37,000, it is the most widely read community newspaper in Maricopa County, Arizona, Maricopa County. It is distributed in Cave Creek, Carefree, Scottsdale, north Phoenix
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and Desert Hills. It is considered a conservative values newspaper, and bills itself as the "conservative voice of Arizona."
In 2010, the downturn in the economy pushed the formerly weekly newspaper to a twice-monthly publishing schedule.
Controversies
In 2002, the publisher of the ''Sonoran News'' was accused of cybersquatting
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on the domain of a rival newspaper to reduce its findability.
In 2009, the ''Sonoran News'' successfully defended itself against a libel lawsuit from rival paper The Desert Advocate, which the Sonoran News had referred to as the "Deadbeat Advocate", citing the owner's non-payment of back taxes.
References
External links
* {{Official website
Newspapers published in Arizona
Conservative media in the United States