''The Butler County Times-Gazette'' is an American

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El Dorado, Kansas El Dorado ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Butler County, Kansas, Butler County, Kansas, United States. It is situated along the Walnut River in the central part of Butler County and located in south-central Kansas. As of the 2020 Unit ...

. The paper covers several communities in northern and eastern

Butler County, Kansas Butler County is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas and is the largest county in the state by total area. Its county seat is El Dorado and its most populous city is Andover. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 67,380. The ...

, part of the

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. In addition to El Dorado, ''The Times-Gazette'' coverage area includes Benton,

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History

''The Times-Gazette'' was founded in 1919 through the merger of two competing El Dorado dailies, the ''El Dorado Republican'' (founded May 5, 1885) and the ''Walnut Valley Times'' (founded March 4, 1870, daily since March 1, 1887).

GateHouse Media GateHouse Media Inc. was an American publisher of locally based print and digital media. It published 144 daily newspapers, 684 community publications, and over 569 local-market websites in 38 states. Its parent company, New Media Investment Group ...

merged the operations of the ''Times-Gazette'' with the ''Andover American'' and ''

Augusta Daily Gazette The ''Augusta Daily Gazette'' was an American daily newspaper in Augusta, Kansas. It was owned by GateHouse Media. The paper covered several communities in suburban Butler County, Kansas, part of the Wichita metropolitan area. In addition to Augu ...

''. The publication was renamed from the ''El Dorado Times'' to the ''Butler County Times-Gazette''.

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sold the paper in 2021 to

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* Newspapers published in Kansas Butler County, Kansas Mass media in Wichita, Kansas Newspapers established in 1919 El Dorado, Kansas {{kansas-newspaper-stub

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