The Union is a daily newspaper serving Grass Valley and Nevada County, California.

Jim Townsend and Henry Meyer Blumenthal founded the paper to support the Union cause and the re-election of Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.

[1] Although the paper was founded for the purpose of supporting Lincoln's candidacy, Townsend immediately tried to sell the venture to a rival newspaper that supported the candidacy of George B. McClellan, Lincoln's Democratic Party rival.

The day before the election, a group of men led by John Rollin Ridge went to the offices of the newspaper and assaulted Blumenthal.

Under his leadership, The Union became the first “country” newspaper in California to become an Associated Press wire service affiliate.