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The story
The newspaper was established in 1930 as the Kilgore Daily News during the peak of the East Texas oil boom, which transformed Kilgore from a town of 800 to over 10,000 residents within months. Early editions emphasized oil-industry news with mottos like "Capital of the World's Greatest Oil Field."
In 1935, it merged with the Kilgore Herald to form the Kilgore News Herald. The Devall family owned the paper from 1940 to 1979, during which it operated as a daily broadsheet with peak circulation exceeding 5,000 copies.
Established in 1930. Lyde Williford Devall and Charles K. Devall owned and published the Kilgore News Herald from 1940 to 1979. In 2018, Bluebonnet Publishing sold the newspaper to M. Roberts Media, as part of a strategic move to enhance local news coverage and facilitate a transition into a digitally integrated noting the newspaper's "historic roots stretching back to the early days of the East Texas oil boom," highlighting its longstanding role and its important history. then was acquired by Carpenter Media Group in 2024.
From Wikipedia’s article on Kilgore News Herald, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4