The Oregon News Herald is a recent addition to the current newspapers preservation program in ODNP. Formerly North Douglas Herald, the Oregon News Herald is a free newspaper published monthly in Drain, Oregon. It provides local news, events, and information with a special focus on communities in north Douglas County and south Lane County. Editor and publisher Rusty Savage started the newspaper because he saw a need for local news coverage in the area that wasn’t being met by other media organizations.

Oregon News Herald is a great example of several new publications (here, here, here, and here) that have appeared in the last few years in Oregon to fill the gaps left by the closure or contraction of many long-time local newspapers.

We’re grateful to the publisher for joining our preservation program to ensure that this important source of local news is accessible for research into the future.

You can find print issues of Oregon News Herald at 80 locations in the region, and through their website. Issues are also available in Historic Oregon Newspapers:

• North Douglas Herald (2023-2025)
• Oregon News Herald (2025- )

We would love to add more current titles to our preservation program! Historic Oregon Newspapers doesn’t replace newspapers’ websites or distribution models, but we do provide a secure and stable preservation system to ensure that current digital newspapers are available into the future for research and education, just like our historical newspapers. The program is free for publishers to participate, but they must opt-in and sign a license permission form that allows ODNP to preserve and make the content available online. ODNP will never ingest content from current newspapers without prior permission from the publisher.