The Times Colonist is the oldest daily newspaper in Western Canada which was created by the 1980 merger of the British Colonist, started in 1858, and the Victoria Daily Times, which started publishing in 1884. The British Colonist was founded by Amor De Cosmos. Today, the paper is the dominant medium in the British Columbia capital, reaching a quarter of a million households every week.

The paper is owned by Victoria-based Black Press, the largest publisher of weekly newspapers in British Columbia. It was founded as Trail Creek in 1895 and has carried several different names since then. The Daily Times is the paper of record for Trail and several surrounding communities.

The Ubyssey was founded on October 18, 1918, and is the official, independent student-run paper of the University of British Columbia. The paper is an independent publication funded with an annual fee of $6.89. The Ubyssey is primarily web-based, but regular issues of the print edition appear once a week from September to April. The paper also maintains a website with web-only news and video content.

The paper traces its origin back to 1974 and Barriere’s first newspaper, the Barriere Bulletin. In 1994, the Star/Journal became a Cariboo Press publication. This paper focuses on valley issues and events and serves the North Thompson Valley from Heffley Creek to Blue River. Subscription rates for the newspaper range from $68.25 for 1 year via mail delivery and $130.20 dollars for 2 years.

Margaret Lally “MA” Murray and her husband George Matheson Murray founded the Alaska Highway News in 1943. MA Murray became the “best known, best-loved and also most cordially disliked person in Fort St. John” for her outspoken editorials. She also coined the newspaper’s motto “We’re the only newspaper in the world that gives a tinker’s damn about the North Peace”. By 2006, the paper was owned by Glacier Media.

The Tri-City News is a weekly community newspaper founded in 1985. It is published by Glacier Media and serves the Tri-Cities region of British Columbia’s Lower Mainland. The paper won second place in Best All-Round Newspaper for large-circulation newspapers and won the Best Front Page category in the 2008 Better Newspapers Competition from the Canadian Community Newspapers Association. The Tri-City News has more than 100,00 print readers per issue, with its sister website, TriCityNews.com with 1,000,000 visits per month.

In May 1967, the paper was founded as an underground newspaper by Pierre Coupley, Milton Acron, Dan McLeod, Stan Persky and was originally operated as a collective. The first issue was presented on May 5, 1967, and it cost ten cents. It was originally a bi-weekly newspaper. Now, The Georgia Straight is a free Canadian weekly news and entertainment newspaper published in a large tabloid format.

The Vancouver Courier was a Canadian semi-weekly local newspaper that began as an independent in 1908 and started with the name Eburne News. From the late 90s to 2007, it had several owners and expanded from being a neighborhood newspaper to its current city wide circulation area after acquiring the Vancouver Echo and the West End Times. The paper was named twice as Best Community Newspaper in British Columbia and was the second runner-up in the Canadian Community Newspaper Association’s General Excellence competition. But in April 2020, the Vancouver Courier announced that they had ceased publication under further notice due to lack of advertising revenue because of the COVID-19 pandemic and in September 2020, this temporary publication halt was made permanent.

Founded in 1976, the Peace Arch News is a bi-weekly newspaper that serves the White Rock and South Surrey area on Wednesday and Friday. The Peace Arch News is delivered to more than 37,000 homes and businesses in the area. Since January 1997, the paper has been a part of the Black Press Group. But in 2014, the related but separate Peace Arch News Daily was shuttered.

The paper was founded in the 1920s as the Cranbrook Courier and originally it was a weekly newspaper; it has been published daily since 1946. It began publishing three times a week in 2016. Cranbrook Daily Townsman is owned by Victoria-based Black Press. Its 24/7 digital access costs $15 a month.