It is based in Southgate, Michigan, and owned by Digital First Media as part of its Detroit region.
The current News-Herald format was established under the Heritage Newspapers brand in 1986, when the late industrialist Heinz Prechter brought the old News-Herald (based in Wyandotte, MI) and Mellus Newspapers (based in Lincoln Park, MI) from SEM Newspapers Inc. and combined them into a single Downriver publication each Wednesday.
In 1988, The News-Herald relocated to their current offices at Interstate 75 and Northline Road in Southgate, MI and launched "Weekender" editions in select communities, which was later incorporated into Heritage Sunday and is now known as the Sunday News-Herald.
[6] Following the 2013 merger of 21st Century Media and MediaNews Group to form Digital First Media, the current owner, the News-Herald was placed in 2014 into Digital First's newly formed Detroit region, which also includes longtime sister papers The Macomb Daily and The Detroit News.
In 2016 severe cuts to the newsroom left them with one sports reporter who split time also covering sports for a sister newspaper in Dearborn, and three full time reporters to cover the communities Downriver.