She established the paper's photo department and published its first Sunday edition, which was scrapped in 1932 as a result of The Great Depression.

He was succeeded by his son, Robert D. Best Jr.[9] The newspaper established a satellite news bureau for southern Snohomish County in May 1954, which later became the Western Sun edition in 1970.

[11] The explosive blaze began in the basement when a backfiring furnace ignited a pan of oil underneath the $150,000 rotary press.

[13] Despite the blaze, the paper published the next day by using the facilities of The Seattle Times and Local 23 Photo Engravers Union.

The purchase was part of the Post's strategy of acquiring smaller dailies near large cities, and then expanding into some of the big-city territory.

In April 2004, Everett Business Journal ceased publication and its assets were acquired The Herald's publisher.

[26] In January 2013, The Herald announced six employees would be laid off, including four from the newsroom, due to ad revenue loses.

[27] On February 6, 2013, the Washington Post Company announced it was selling the paper to the Sound Publishing division of Black Press, based in Victoria, British Columbia.

An optical lens on top of the unit would be able to determine a person's age and gender within 15 feet and then play target ads along with sports scores, weather, news and a broadcast anchor.

[14] In April 2020, Sound Publishing laid off 20% of its workforce amid a decline in ad revenue resulting from the COVID-19 recession in the United States.

Seventy workers across all departments lost their jobs, including more than a dozen employees who worked on The Herald.

[33] In March 2020, The Herald launched the Investigative Journalism Fund in cooperation with the Community Foundation of Snohomish County.

[34] The Health Reporting Initiative launched in October 2022 is funded in part for three years by Premera Blue Cross.

[39][40] An article on the layoffs posted to The Herald's website was taken down and replaced with version that appeared friendlier to owner Carpenter Media Group, which had acquired Sound Publishing earlier that year.

A company executive called the original article a "hit-piece" while The Herald's editors threatened to quit if the story was not republished.

[45] The union alleged the company used a "quota system" based on story count and page views to determine who was going to be laid off and demands all jobs to be reinstated.

On June 25, the union extended the strike for a second day until Carpenter Media agreed to set a date to bargain over the job cuts.

[49] In March 1983, The Daily Herald lost an appellate court case in the State of Washington in which it sought to quash a subpoena allowing a judicial review of confidential material gathered for articles it had published in 1979 on the cult activities of Theodore Rinaldo, who had since been convicted on charges of rape, indecent liberties and assault.