Walliser Bote

The Walliser Bote is a Swiss German-language daily newspaper established in 1840, published in the Canton of Valais.

[2] It is published out of Sion, Switzerland, and was the first German-language paper in Valais.

[1] Its initial period was inconsistent, with it briefly becoming a bilingual paper and renaming itself Le Messager Valaisan.

[2][1] From 1916 to 1935 it was published by the company Oberwalliser Presseverein AG, and from 1935 on was published by Mengis Druck & Verlag AG of Visp, which had printed the paper for the past three years.

Early in its history it had party ties and was Catholic and conservative in orientation, but it became independent in 1981.