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Overview
The Indianapolis Star is Indiana's largest newspaper by circulation and the main paper for the Statehouse and the Marion County courts. The Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne, the South Bend Tribune, the Evansville Courier & Press, the Times of Northwest Indiana in Munster, the Journal & Courier in Lafayette, the Herald-Times in Bloomington, the Herald Bulletin in Anderson, the Tribune-Star in Terre Haute and the Kokomo Tribune cover their regions, and the Indiana Capital Chronicle covers state government online.
Indiana newspapers carry the legal notices state law requires for sheriff's sales, estates and government actions, publish obituaries for 92 counties, and hold court coverage that pairs with the state's MyCase search.
Official sources on this page were checked on September 25, 2026.
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Indiana Newspapers
Find local and statewide newspaper publications for Indiana. Access news, sports, classified, entertainment, and archived articles.
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Major Indiana newspapers and what they cover
The Star covers Indianapolis, state government, the Indiana Supreme Court and the federal court, with back issues from the 1900s onward in the digital archives. The Journal Gazette covers Fort Wayne and northeast Indiana, the Tribune covers South Bend and Notre Dame, the Courier & Press covers Evansville and the tri-state, and the Times covers Lake and Porter counties in the Chicago orbit. County dailies and weeklies such as the Greensburg Daily News, the Rushville Republican, the Brown County Democrat and the Wabash Plain Dealer carry county council minutes, sheriff's reports and circuit court filings.
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Historic Indiana newspapers online
Hoosier State Chronicles, the Indiana State Library's digital newspaper program, offers free digitized Indiana newspapers from the 1800s onward, and Indiana titles appear in Chronicling America. The Indiana State Library in Indianapolis holds newspaper microfilm for every county and lends it through interlibrary loan, and the Indianapolis Public Library provides free access to the Star archive with a library card. The Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, home of a major genealogy center, holds northern Indiana titles.
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Legal notices, public notices and obituaries in Indiana
Indiana law requires sheriff's sale notices, estate notices to creditors, name changes, tax sales, unclaimed property lists and county and municipal notices to run in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, and the Hoosier State Press Association collects them in a statewide search. Obituaries run in every daily and most weeklies, and the Indiana State Library keeps an obituary index. Court coverage pairs with MyCase, the statewide court case search.
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Straight answers
Indiana Newspaper Directory, questions
What is Indiana's largest newspaper by circulation?
The Indianapolis Star, followed by the Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne, the South Bend Tribune, the Evansville Courier & Press and the Times of Northwest Indiana.
Where are historic Indiana newspapers online?
Hoosier State Chronicles from the Indiana State Library offers free digitized titles from the 1800s onward, and Chronicling America adds more.
Where are Indiana sheriff's sale notices published?
In a newspaper of general circulation in the county, collected in the Hoosier State Press Association's statewide public notice search.