It is named after the district Glåmdalen, and covers southern Hedmark with offices in Solør, Skarnes and Nes, Akershus.
The newspaper was established in 1926 as Kongsvinger Arbeiderblad, and had a connection to the Norwegian Labour Party.
Glåmdalen changed to tabloid format in 1997 and launched its Internet site in 2000.
[4] In 2011, the paper won the World Young Reader Prize of WAN/IFRA in the Public Service category.
[4][5] In a study dated 2016 Glåmdalen was found to contain the epithet Negro (Norwegian: neger) at the lowest frequency in the period between 1970 and 2014 with 14 references.