The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier is a daily afternoon newspaper published by Lee Enterprises for people living in Waterloo and Cedar Falls, Iowa as well as northeast Iowa.

The first issue of The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier was published on November 22, 1859, by WH Hartman and George Ingersoll.

[2] The Courier changed to a daily newspaper in 1890, publishing in the afternoon every day except Saturday.

[2] Howard Publications bought the Waterloo Courier and Cedar Falls Record in 1983.

At that time, the Courier had been owned for 128 years by the same family, and had a daily circulation of around 55,000 in 1983.