Western News&Info, Inc.® has a long history in the business of printing and publishing. Western News&Info, Inc.®, a holding company, was established in January, 1978. The Soldwedel family owns the voting stock in the privately-held company.

Prior to 1978, the company had its beginning in the mid-1930s when Mr. Foy F. McNaughton purchased The Yuma Daily Sun. In 1953, after Foy's daughter, Luda, married Don Soldwedel, the couple moved to Yuma to run the McNaughton's 50% interest in the Yuma newspaper.

Combining efforts through the years, the McNaughtons and Soldwedels purchased or started additional newspaper properties. In the 1960s the Prescott Courier, Casa Grande Dispatch, Lake Havasu City Herald and partial interests in the Mohave (Kingman) Miner were purchased.

In the 1970s, the Mohave Valley News in Bullhead City, the Verde Independent in Cottonwood and the Camp Verde Bugle also were purchased.

After the holding company was formed and into the early 1980s, the Lake Powell Chronicle, Navajo-Hopi Observer, Foothills Sentinel in Cave Creek, the Palo Verde Times in Blythe, California, the Quartzsite Times in Quartzsite, Arizona, the Laughlin Gambler and Douglas Dispatch were added. The Dispatch and Chronicle were later sold.

The Soldwedels also were involved in commercial printing and television operations in conjunction with newspaper publishing during this time period.

In 1984, the Soldwedels sold all of their Yuma interests in the Yuma Daily Sun, Foothills News and Sun Television to Cox Newspapers. Since 1985, Western News & Info has entered the outdoor advertising business as well as in-store sign advertising in the Phoenix and Tucson metro markets. The company also added the Golden Valley Enterprise, the Weekender, the Chino Valley Review and the Prescott Valley Tribune to its list of newspaper properties since 1985.

As of the end of 1995, Western News&Info, Inc.® boasted 15 newspapers, a sign advertising company, a variety of shoppers and real estate guides, and three commercial printing businesses with more than 300 employees.

In 1991, Western News&Info, Inc.® sold its three newspapers in Bullhead City and Laughlin and purchased the Kingman Booster which became the Kingman Prospector. Williams Grand Canyon News and Canyon Shopper were added, and in 1995, Today's News Herald and Parker Pioneer were also added.

In January of 1997 Western News&Info, Inc.® invested in a 50% ownership of radio stations KCYK and Z-93 Keith and Doreen Lewis are our partners in this radio venture. KCYK (frequency: AM 1400) and KLJZ Z-93 (frequency: FM 93.1) stations are located in Yuma, Arizona.

In 2005 they started Yavapai Magazine.