''Boise Weekly'' is a newspaper in
Boise, Idaho
Boise ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities in Idaho, most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, there were 235,685 people residing in the city. Loca ...
, United States. It was founded in 1992 by Andy and Debi Hedden-Nicely and Larry Regan.
It is owned by
Adams Publishing Group's Western Division
and is part of ''
The Idaho Press.''
It is published weekly on Wednesday. Its market is southwestern Idaho from
McCall on the northwest to
Sun Valley to the east.
In February 2000, the paper was sold to the
Portland, Oregon
Portland ( ) is the List of cities in Oregon, most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated close to northwest Oregon at the confluence of the Willamette River, Willamette and Columbia River, ...
-based City of Roses Newspaper Company, which also owns two other
alt-weekly newspapers, ''
Willamette Week
''Willamette Week'' (''WW'') is an alternative weekly newspaper and a website published in Portland, Oregon, United States, since 1974. It features reports on local news, politics, sports, business, and culture.
History
Early history
'' ...
'' and the ''
Santa Fe Reporter'',
but only a year and a half later, in August 2001, City of Roses sold the ''Boise Weekly'' to Mark ("Bingo") Barnes and Sally Barnes
(''nee'' Freeman). Bingo Barnes became its publisher and editor-in-chief.
The Barneses were married, but they later divorced and Sally Barnes resumed using her unmarried name of Sally Freeman. In 2007, Bingo Barnes left to become publisher of the ''
Anchorage Press'' and in 2013 became the editor of Kuna Melba News in Kuna, Idaho. Freeman became full owner of the ''Boise Weekly'', also remaining its publisher.
See also
*
Media in Boise, Idaho
References
External links
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Newspapers published in Idaho
Alternative weekly newspapers published in the United States
Newspapers established in 1992
Mass media in Boise, Idaho
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