Metro Newspapers

In 1985, Dan Pulcrano put together a group of local Silicon Valley and entertainment industry investors and recruited LA Weekly executive David Cohen as co-publisher to launch Metro. From an initial circulation of 40,000 it grew to approximately 100,000.

In 1990, Metro acquired Los Gatos Weekly, a newspaper Pulcrano had founded eight years earlier, and the Chicago Tribune-owned Los Gatos Times-Observer. The two were merged to become Los Gatos Weekly-Times.

In 1994, the company launched a second alt weekly called Metro Santa Cruz. That same year, Metro bought a stake in the Sonoma County Independent. In 2000, the newspaper was rebranded as the North Bay Bohemian and the circulation area was expanded to Marin and Napa counties.

In 2001, company co-founder David Cohen spun off five newspapers from Metro to form a new company called Silicon Valley Community Newspapers. The papers included the Saratoga News, Campbell Reporter, Cupertino Courier, Sunnyvale Sun and Willow Glen Resident.

In 2009, Metro Santa Cruz was renamed Santa Cruz Weekly. In 2014, Metro Newspapers acquired Good Times, the Gilroy Dispatch, the Hollister Free Lance and the Morgan Hill Times from Brookside Capital. Metro then merged Good Times with Santa Cruz Weekly.

In 2015, Metro acquired the Pacific Sun; the Bohemian ceased distribution in Marin County and increased its Sonoma County and Napa County distribution.

In 2019, the company acquired the King City Rustler, Soledad Bee, Greenfield News and Gonzales Tribune from News Media Corporation. That same year it purchased The Pajaronian.

In 2020, the company was renamed to Weeklys, acquired the East Bay Express, launched East Bay magazine, and acquired the Scotts Valley Press Banner. In 2021, Weeklys launched a new paper called the Los Gatan.