Bingham News Chronicle

In 1917, W.A. McVicar founded the Evening Bulletin in Blackfoot, Idaho.^[1] In 1926, McVicar sold the paper to John L. Brady, former editor of the Idaho State Journal.^[2] Three years later the Evening Bulletin merged with the Blackfoot Republican to form the Daily Bulletin.^[3] The Republican was founded by Byrd Trego.^[4]

In 1933, Brady died from a heart attack.^[5] His widow Mrs. Lee Crittenden Brady and Trego operated the Daily Bulletin until selling it to Edwin H. Paysen and John L. Rider in 1939.^[6] W.R. Twining, publisher of the Crockett Signal of California, bought the paper in 1942.^[7] He then closed the Signal.^[8]

In 1947, Harold H. Smith, former owner of the Northside News at Jerome, Idaho, bought the Daily Bulletin from Twining.^[9] In 1957, Smith sold the paper to Drury R. Brown, business manager at The Hutchinson News.^[10] In 1960, the paper switched from an evening to a morning publication.^[11] Around that time the paper's name was changed to the Blackfoot News.^[12] In 1981, the paper was renamed to The Morning News. At that time its circulation was 6,700.^[12]

Brown died on April 1, 1986.^[13] Three months later his widow Catherine Brown sold The Morning News to Gloucester Suburban Newspapers Inc., of New Jersey. The company was co-owned by Peter Bernhard and William Dean Singleton,^[14] and was affiliated with MediaNews Group. In September 1987, American Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Hollinger Inc., bought the paper.^[15] At some point The Morning News was acquired by Horizon Publications, Inc.^[16]

In 2018, KIFI-TV reported the paper was plagued with production issues and that nearly a dozen employees were fired or quit.^[17] In 2019, Adams Publishing Group launched the Bingham County Chronicle, a five-day paper which competed with The Morning News.^[18] In 2020, Adams acquired the Blackfoot Morning News and merged it with the Chronicle to form the Bingham News Chronicle.^[19][20] The paper went on hiatus in 2022 during the COVID-19 pandemic and resumed print publication as a weekly paper in 2025.^[21]