''The Register-Herald'' is six-day morning

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, Monday thru Friday with a Weekend Edition delivered on Saturday mornings and is based in

Beckley, West Virginia Beckley is a city in and the county seat of Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. It was founded on April 4, 1838. This city is the home of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology or West Virginia University, Beckley Campus. ...

, and also covering surrounding communities in Fayette, Greenbrier,

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and

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counties,

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. It has a circulation of 19,237 and is owned by Community Newspaper Newspaper Holdings. The newspaper traces its history to ''The Raleigh Register'', the ''Raleigh Herald'', and the ''Beckley Evening Post'' which were among a dozen weekly and monthly publications published in and around Beckley as early as the 1880s. ''The Raleigh Register'' developed into a modern daily newspaper and began seven-day publication on June 6, 1923. The ''Evening Post'' began daily publication on February 12, 1924. On May 31, 1926 the ''Herald and Evening Post'' combined as a morning daily newspaper known as the ''Beckley Post-Herald''. On June 1, 1928 the ''Raleigh Register'' and ''Beckley Post-Herald'' came under

common ownership Common ownership refers to holding the assets of an organization, enterprise or community indivisibly rather than in the names of the individual members or groups of members as common property. Forms of common ownership exist in every econom ...

, with the ''Post-Herald'' publishing Monday-Friday mornings, the ''Register'' publishing Monday-Friday afternoons, with subscribers receiving a combined paper produced by the ''Post-Herald'' staff on Saturday and the ''Register'' staff on Sunday. Despite the common ownership the ''Register'' was generally a Democratic newspaper, and the ''Post-Herald'' a Republican alternative. This arrangement continued until the sale of the newspapers to the owners of the '' Charleston Daily Mail'' in 1977. Following this, the editorial independence of the two publications declined, and the ''Register'' was slowly shut down. By 1981 the ''Register'' was simply an afternoon reprint and update of the ''Post-Herald'', with a separate editorial page, and on January 1, 1985 the two newspapers were completely combined under the current name. The newspaper changed hands three times in the 1990s, before being acquired by its current owners in 2000. Circulation has waned with the declining population of the area.

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, a division of

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,

Inc., publishes ''The Register-Herald'' and two weekly newspapers, ''The Fayette Tribune'' and ''The Montgomery Herald''.The Register-Herald: Department Email Information
accessed January 20, 2007.

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