[2] Black Press purchased the Daily News in July 2010, as part of a larger deal that saw Glacier Media sell several of its British Columbia papers, mostly weeklies, to Black.
Former Black executive Don Kendall bought Glacier dailies in Cranbrook and Kimberley as part of the same deal, remarking that Black "wasn't as interested in some titles – Cranbrook, Kimberley, Nelson, and Prince Rupert – but Glacier was only selling the papers as a block.
It already owned competing weeklies in both markets, the Nelson Star and The Northern View in Prince Rupert.
[2] Rick O'Connor, Black's chief operating officer, said the Nelson and Prince Rupert newspapers, along with two other weeklies shuttered the same day, had lost $1 million in the past year.
[4] After closing the Nelson Daily News, Black Press hired the News' former editor Bob Hall to run the Nelson Star, which increased its frequency from weekly to twice-weekly.