The Baker City Herald is a tri-weekly paper published in Baker City

Baker City, Oregon

Baker City is a city in and the county seat of Baker County, Oregon, United States. It was named after Edward D. Baker. The population was 9,828 at the 2010 census.-History:...

, Oregon

Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...

, United States, since 1870. It is published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays by Western Communications

Western Communications

Western Communications, Inc. is an American newspaper publisher serving the states of Oregon and California. The family-owned company is based in Bend, Oregon and was founded by Robert W. Chandler...

 and has a circulation of 2,715. The Herald was formerly the newspaper of record

Newspaper of record

Newspaper of record is a term that may refer either to any publicly available newspaper that has been authorized by a government to publish public or legal notices , or any major newspaper that has a large circulation and whose editorial and news-gathering functions are considered professional and...

 for Baker County

Baker County, Oregon

Baker County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is included in the 8 county definition of Eastern Oregon. It is named for Edward Dickinson Baker, a senator from Oregon who was killed at Ball's Bluff, a battle of the Civil War in Virginia in 1861. It was split from the eastern part...

. It competes with The Record-Courier

The Record-Courier (Baker City)

The Record-Courier is an independent weekly paper published in Baker City, Oregon, United States, since 1901. It is published on Thursdays by the Brinton Estate and has a circulation of 2,470. It is the newspaper of record for Baker County. The Record-Courier competes with the tri-weekly Baker City...

, a weekly.

History

The Herald was established as the Bedrock-Democrat on May 11, 1870. In 1929, the Bedrock-Democrat merged with the city's other daily paper, the Morning Herald, to become the Baker Democrat-Herald. When the city's name was changed from Baker back to Baker City in 1990, the paper was renamed to Baker City Herald. The Herald went from being published five days a week to three on June 1, 2009.