It was formed in April 2024 from the merger of the Huntington Herald-Press, Wabash Plain Dealer and Peru Tribune.
In the early 1960s, Eugene C. Pulliam, owner of Central Newspapers, Inc., sold the paper to his son-in-law James C. Quayle.
He died in 2000 and his wife Corrine Quayle sold the paper in 2007 to Paxton Media Group.
Nixon Newspapers sold it to Paxton Media Group in 1998 along with its sister paper, the Wabash Plain Dealer, founded in 1858.
[2] In April 2024, Paxton merged the Peru Tribune, Wabash Plain Dealer and Huntington Herald-Press together to form a new weekly publication called the Indiana Plain Dealer.