Texas Newspaper Directory

Texas has more newspapers than any other state. The Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle, the San Antonio Express-News, the Austin American-Statesman and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram cover the big cities, and the El Paso Times, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, the Amarillo Globe-News, the Waco Tribune-Herald, the Beaumont Enterprise, the Tyler Morning Telegraph, the Longview News-Journal, the Abilene Reporter-News, the Wichita Falls Times Record News, the Midland Reporter-Telegram and the Monitor in McAllen cover their regions. The Texas Tribune covers state government online.

Texas newspapers carry the legal notices state law requires for estates, name changes and government actions, publish obituaries for 254 counties, and hold court coverage that pairs with the district and county clerks' online searches.

Official sources on this page were checked on September 25, 2026.

Find local and statewide newspaper publications for Texas. Access news, sports, classified, entertainment, and archived articles.

• Houston ChronicleEntertainment, jobs, classifieds and more
• Dallas Morning NewsNews, weather, business and more
• The San Antonio Express NewsSports, obituaries, real estate and more

The Morning News covers Dallas, the North Texas courts and, through its Austin bureau, state government, with back issues from the 1880s onward in the digital archives. The Chronicle covers Houston, Harris County, the energy industry and the federal court, the Express-News covers San Antonio and the border, the American-Statesman covers the Capitol and the Texas Supreme Court, and the Star-Telegram covers Fort Worth and Tarrant County. Texas' hundreds of county weeklies, from the Canadian Record to the Uvalde Leader-News, carry commissioners court minutes, sheriff's reports and the district court filings for the counties no daily reaches.

The Portal to Texas History at the University of North Texas hosts the Texas Digital Newspaper Program, one of the largest free newspaper archives in the country, with millions of pages from the 1820s onward, and Texas titles also appear in Chronicling America. The Texas State Library and Archives Commission in Austin holds newspaper microfilm statewide, and the Houston, Dallas and San Antonio public libraries provide free access to their city newspaper archives with a library card and keep obituary indexes.

• Texas Digital Newspaper Program, Portal to Texas HistoryFree digitized Texas newspapers from the University of North Texas
• Chronicling America, Texas newspapersHistoric Texas newspapers from the Library of Congress
• Texas Press Association public noticesPublic notice information from the Texas Press Association

Texas law requires notices to creditors in probate, name changes, citation by publication in lawsuits, tax sales, unclaimed property lists and county and city hearings and elections to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, and the Texas Press Association publishes public notices from member papers. Foreclosure notices in Texas are posted at the county courthouse and filed with the county clerk rather than published, so the clerk's records are the source for them. Most papers in Texas, daily and weekly, carry obituaries. Court coverage pairs with the online case searches of the district and county clerks in most large counties.

• Texas Court RecordsDistrict and county court case searches by clerk
• Texas Vital RecordsBirth, death and marriage certificates
• Texas Genealogy SearchArchives, census and family history sources

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