The ''Tri-City Herald'' is a daily

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based in

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, United States. Owned by

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, the newspaper serves southeastern

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, including the three cities of Kennewick, Pasco and Richland (which are collectively known as the Tri-Cities). The ''Herald'' also serves the smaller cities of Benton City, Connell,

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and

West Richland West Richland is a city in Benton County, Washington. The population was 16,295 at the time of the 2020 census. The city is part of the Tri-Cities metropolitan area, whose principal cities (the Tri-Cities) are Richland, Kennewick, and Pasco. ...

. It is the only major

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newspaper in Washington east of

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and south of

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, and includes local and national news, opinion columns, sports information, movie listings and

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s among other features. The paper was founded in 1918 as the weekly ''Pasco Herald.'' In 1947, Glenn C. Lee and Robert Philip bought the paper, moved it to Kennewick and transformed it into the area's first daily paper, coining the name 'Tri-Cities' as part of the paper's name. Lee and Philip sold the paper to McClatchy in 1979. After over 30 years as an afternoon paper, it became a morning paper in 1984. It added a Saturday edition in 1987. In 1950, striking workers of the Herald launched a morning competitor, ''

Columbia Basin News The ''Columbia Basin News'' was a morning daily newspaper published in Pasco, Washington in the United States from 1950 to 1963. A strike and subsequent lockout occurred at the ''Tri-City Herald'' in 1950. Employees of the Herald, an afternoon ...

'', in Pasco. From 1950 until the summer of 1963, the Tri-Cities was one of the smallest U.S. markets with two competing daily newspapers. ''Columbia Basin News'' printed its last issue in 1963.

References

External links

''Tri-City Herald'' official Web site''Tri-City Herald'' official mobile Web siteSportsTriCities.com, the ''Tri-City Herald's'' sports-only Web site
* ttp://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86071980/ ''Pasco Herald'' archiveat

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