TheSun-News started in 1881 as theRio Grande Republican and went through several mergers to become theLas Cruces Daily News in 1934. Another daily, theLas Cruces Sun, started publication in 1937 and bought theDaily News in 1939 to form theLas Cruces Sun-News. The paper changed ownership several times, bought by Opal Lee Priestley and Orville Priestley, in 1946; then sold to Worrell Newspapers Inc., in 1970,[citation needed] and acquired by Garden State, a subsidiary of MediaNews Group in 1989,[4] it was most recently bought byGannett.[2][5]
The paper became part of theTexas-New Mexico Newspapers Partnership, a joint venture formed in 2003 between MediaNews Group andGannett, with MediaNews Group the managing partner.[6] In 2015, Gannett acquired full ownership of the Texas-New Mexico Newspapers Partnership.[7]
Publisher Rynni Henderson left the paper in 2019[8] with no official announcement, and a succeeding publisher was not named as of 2024.
^Brunt, Charles D. (1999). "Pressing On: Newspaper pioneers lead way to today's Sun-News".Celebrating 150 years of Las Cruces history. Las Cruces Sun-News.OCLC50154273.
