The Port Arthur News is six-day morning newspaper published every day except Mondays in Port Arthur, Texas, covering Jefferson County.
The newspaper has not missed an issue since March 17, 1897, when the Stump family, leaving Missouri, printed the first weekly edition in a baggage car of a train on the way to their new home.
By 1920, all of Port Arthur's other newspapers had either folded or been bought out by The News.
Cox converted The News from an afternoon paper to morning publication in 1986.
In 1991, Cox sold The News, along with its sister paper The Orange Leader, to American Publishing Company, which in turn dealt them to Community Newspaper Holdings in 1999.