The Times-Standard is the only major local daily newspaper covering the far North Coast of California.

Headquartered in Eureka, the paper provides coverage of international, national, state and local news in addition to entertainment, sports, and classified listings.

Staff writer Andrew Genzoli later recalled, "There hadn't been so much excitement in the newsroom since Pearl Harbor".

[9] Thomson owned the Times-Standard until 1996 when it was bought by MediaNews Group,[7] who sold it to Digital First Media in June 2016.

As a result, in late 2008 (after a brief period of reduced publication), The Eureka Reporter announced that it would cease operations.