Many local newspapers are available for use online, with some issues available in the reading room.
The following links provide access to several incomplete runs of digitized newspapers. Other past editions are in the process of being digitized or available from the current newspaper.
- Rexburg Newspapers
- The Rigby Star
- Eastern Idaho Newspapers (Historical newspapers from the Upper Snake River communities of Ashton [1933, 39], Marysville [1904-05], and Saint Anthony [1907].)
- Blackfoot Newspapers
- Idaho Falls Newspapers
Microfilm copies of past editions of Idaho newspapers are located on the first floor, east wing of the McKay Library.
| Ashton | The Ashton Herald | 8 Jan 1942-27 June 1984 |
| Ashton Herald | 1956 and 1906 | |
| Blackfoot | The Idaho Register | 10 July 1880-31 July 1886 |
| The Idaho News | 11 Jun 1880-31 July 1886 | |
| (changed to) | ||
| The Blackfoot News | 7 Nov 1891-1 Jan 1902 | |
| Idaho City | Boise News | 29 Sept 1863-11 Nov 1864 |
| (changed to) | ||
| The Idaho World | 12 Nov 1864-1 Nov 1918 | |
| Boise | The Idaho Tri-weekly Statesman | 26 July 1864-31 Dec 1887 |
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| Idaho Daily Statesman | 10 Jan 1888-31 Dec 1900 | |
| Idaho Daily Statesman | 1 Jan 1966-31 Dec 1969 | |
| (changed to) | ||
| The Idaho Statesman | 1 Jan 1970-31 Dec 1987 | |
| Challis | The Silver Messenger | 31 July 1894-18 Mar 1912 |
| (changed to) | ||
| Challis-Messenger | 19 Mar 1912-31 Dec 1912 | |
| Driggs | Teton Valley News | 15 Apr 1909-30 Dec 2004 |
| Preston | Preston Standard | 16 Aug 1901-5 Sep 1902 |
| Sugar City | Sugar City Times | 1913-1914 |
| Sugar City Times | 1906 and 1908 | |
| Dubois | Clark County Enterprise Banner | 8 May 1924-23 July 1959 |
| (changed to) | ||
| Clark County Enterprise | 24 July 1959-July 1971 | |
| (changed to) | ||
| Enterprise Citizen | July 1971-2 Dec 1976 | |
| (merged with) | ||
| Rexburg Journal | 3-Dec-76 | |
| Rexburg | Rexburg Standard | 30 Dec 1909-31 Dec 1936 |
| Rexburg Standard | 7 Jan 1937-24 Aug 1984 | |
| (merged with) | ||
| Rexburg Journal | 4 Jan 1918-30 Dec 1982 | |
| The Rexburg Journal | 6 Jan 1982-29 Dec 1982 | |
| (changed to) | ||
| The Rexburg Standard Journal | 5 Jan 1984-1 Jan 2003 | |
| (changed to) | ||
| Standard Journal | 2 April 2003-Present | |
| Rexburg Silver Hammer | 5 Jan 1894-20 Aug 1896 | |
| The Current Journal | 19 Jan 1905-28 Dec 1917 | |
| Rexburg Standard Journal | Dec.1915 | |
| The Viking Scroll | 1927-1988 | |
| Hailey | Woods River News-Miner (daily) | 3 April 1883-30 Mar 1890 |
| Wood River Times (weekly) | 15 Jun 1881-31 Dec 1900 | |
| Lewiston | Morning Tribune | 1 Jan 1986-15 Dec 1987 |
| Paris | The Bear Lake Democrat | 12 Oct 1880-9 Oct 1885 |
| Southern Idaho Independent | 23 Oct 1885-26 Aug 1892 | |
| Rigby | The Rigby Star | 5 Jan 1906-27 Dec 1978 |
| (changed to) | ||
| The Jefferson County Star | 3 Jan 1979-31 Dec 1981 | |
| (changed to) | ||
| Jefferson Star | 7 Jan 1982-26 Dec 1984 | |
| Roberts | Roberts Sentinel | 1912-1914 |
| Jefferson County Advocate | 22 Aug 1973-14 Nov 1913 | |
| St. Anthony | Fremont Repubilcan | 12 Mar 1898-15 Apr 1899 |
| The Teton Peak | 22 Apr 1899-20 Apr 1905 | |
| (changed to) | ||
| The Teton Peak Chronicle | 27 Apr 1905-13 Apr 1950 | |
| Fremont County Chronicle News | 8-Aug-63 | |
| The Fremont County News | 7 Jun 1916-6 Aug 1952 | |
| (changed to) | ||
| The Fremont Chronicle News | 7 Aug 1952-27 Dec 1984 | |
| Salmon | The Idaho Recorder | 13 Nov 1886-21 Apr 1927 |
| (changed to) | ||
| Recorder Herald | 22 Apr 1927-27 Dec 1951 | |
| Idaho Falls | The Idaho Commoner | 3 Jan 1941-30 Jul 1948 |
| The Idaho Register | 4 Sept 1886-16 Sept 1920 | |
| (merged with The Idaho Falls Times to become) | ||
| The Time Register | 17 Sept 1920-28 Jan 1921 | |
| Idaho Falls Daily Post | 31 Mar 1916-21 Nov 1926 | |
| (changed to) | ||
| Idaho Falls Post | 2 Aug 1926-26 Feb 1932 | |
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| Post Register | 1 Nov 1931-5 Nov 1948 | |
| Post Register | 7 Nov 1948-Present | |
| Salt Lake City | The Valley Tan | 6 Nov 1858-29 Feb 1860 |
| Church News | 1931-Present | |
| Deseret News | 15 June 1850-Present | |
| The Deseret Semiweekly News | 4 Dec 1865-30 Apr 1890 | |
| The Deseret Evening News | 21 Nov 1867-29 May 1891 | |
| The Children's Friend | 1902-1970 | |
| The Contributor | 1887-1896 | |
| The Woman's Exopnent | vol. 1-44 | |
| The Relief Society Magazine | 1914-1970 | |
| The Instructor | 1866-1970 | |
| The Improvement Era | 1897-1988 | |
| London | London Gazette | 1 Apr 1686-30 Dec 1800 |
| USA | Monthly Catalogue of US Government | Jan 1895-Dec 1971 |
| Hancock, Illinois | Warsaw Signal | 1841-1842 |
| Warsaw Signal | 1844-1846 | |
| Warsaw Signal | 1847-1853 | |
| Polk City Directories | Idaho Falls | 1911-1917 |
| Idaho Falls | 1919-1924 | |
| Idaho Falls | 1926-1933 | |
| Pocatello | 1901-1911 | |
| Pocatello | 1913-1925 | |
| Pocatello | 1927-1935 |
