Western News&Info, Inc.® has a long history in the business of printing and publishing online and on paper. Western News&Info, Inc.® a holding company, was established in January, 1978. The Soldwedel family owns the voting stock in the privately-held company. Prior to 1978, the media company had its beginning in the mid-1930s when Mr. Foy F. McNaughton purchased The Yuma Daily Sun. In 1953, after Foy’s daughter, Luda, married Don Soldwedel, the couple moved to Yuma to run the McNaughton’s 50% interest in the Yuma newspaper. Combining efforts through the years, the McNaughtons and Soldwedels purchased or started additional newspaper properties. In the 1960s the Prescott Courier, Casa Grande Dispatch, Lake Havasu City Herald and partial interests in the Mohave (Kingman) Miner were purchased. In the 1970s, the Mohave Valley News in Bullhead City, the Verde Independent in Cottonwood and the Camp Verde Bugle also were purchased.
