The Capital Press is a weekly agricultural newspaper covering the West Coast of the United States, and published in Salem, Oregon.

At the time the paper focused solely on covering the Hollywood neighborhood in Salem.

The Rand family changed the paper's focus in the 1960s to agricultural after noticing that many farmers bought classified ads in newspaper and thought they were an underserved market.

In 1990, Dewey Rand Jr. sold the newspaper to the East Oregonian Publishing Company.

[4] Bill Duncan published a column from 1981 until his death in 2011; the News Review of Roseburg, Oregon deems it "still pertinent" and is republishing it as of 2018.