The Republican Herald is a daily newspaper serving Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.

The newspaper is owned by MediaNews Group, a subsidiary of Alden Global Capital.

[1] The Republican-Herald was founded in 1884 as The Daily Republican by Joseph Henry Zerbey.

Zerbey Newspapers, Inc., the parent company of the Pottsville Republican, purchased the 120-year-old Shenandoah Evening Herald, to form the Pottsville Republican & Evening Herald.

In 1979, writers Gilbert M. Gaul and Elliot G. Jaspin won a Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting for stories on the destruction of the Blue Coal Company by men with ties to organized crime.