The Hobbs News-Sun is a daily newspaper published Tuesday through Sunday in Hobbs, New Mexico, featuring news, sports and other features of interest to readers in Lea County.
The News-Sun was the result of a merger between two of the many local newspapers that appeared in Hobbs in the 1930s, following the region's oil boom at that time.
Competition fell away until only the News-Sun and the Hobbs Flare remained.
The rival paper Flare was founded in 1948 by Agnes Kastner Head, the wife of a candidate for mayor, because Hobbs News-Sun did not want to publish ads for her husband's campaign.
[2] American poet Dave Oliphant has written in his memoir, Harbingers of Books to Come: A Texan's Literary Life, that his letter to the editor Hobbs News-Sun in 1969 led the list of top ten news stories of the newspaper for the year.