The ''Big Spring Herald'' is a newspaper based in Big Spring, Texas, covering the Howard County area of

West Texas West Texas is a loosely defined region in the U.S. state of Texas, generally encompassing the desert climate, arid and semiarid climate, semiarid lands west of a line drawn between the cities of Wichita Falls, Texas, Wichita Falls, Abilene, Texa ...

. It published on weekday afternoons and Sunday mornings. It is owned by Horizon Publications Inc.

History

The ''Herald'' was founded as a weekly in 1904 by brothers-in-law Tom Jordan and W.G. Hayden and became a daily in 1928. In 1929, Harte-Hanks Newspapers bought the paper. In 2001, Community Newspaper Holdings put the ''Herald'' up for sale along with 30 other properties, including fellow West Texas papers the '' Borger News-Herald'' and '' Sweetwater Reporter''. Horizon Publications bought the three West Texas papers in 2003.

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* Daily newspapers published in Texas Howard County, Texas Newspapers established in 1904 {{Texas-newspaper-stub 1904 establishments in Texas