It formed in 1985 after the Kellogg Evening News merged with the North Idaho Press.

[1] He died in 1895 and his widow Jeannette Allen owned the paper with Aaron Frost as manager.

[1] Her nephew Gary Corbeill served as publisher until the family sold the paper in 1985.

[1] Adam Aulbach soon took over the paper and sold it in 1892 to R. F. "Barbarian" Brown, who changed the name to the Coeur d'Alene American.

[1] In 1952, Henry L. Day sold the Wallace Press-Times to Burl C. Hagadone, an executive with Scripps League Newspapers.

[8] In 1985, Hagadone purchased North Idaho Publishing Co. from Magnuson[9] and Kellogg News Inc. from Gary Corbeill.

[13] The paper was then located in Osburn until it's office was closed in 2023 and staff moved to the facilities of the Coeur d'Alene Press.