The Pacific Publishing Company is a Seattle-based commercial printer and newspaper publisher. The company publishes newspapers in Washington and in Nevada under its Nevada News Group division. History Houston media executive Tom Haley and five other investors formed Pacific Publishing Company (PPC) in 1990 to purchase the assets of 14 newspapers in King County, Washington with a combined circulation of 126,000 and 135 employees. From John Murray, owner of Murray Publishing Company, PPC purchased the Queen Anne News, Magnolia News, Masonic Tribune, The Issaquah Press, The Issaquah Valley Shopper and Argus Weekend. From John Flaherty, owner of Flaherty Newspapers, PPC purchased the Beacon Hill News, Capitol Hill Times, University Herald, The North Central Outlook, The Mercer Islander, Madison Park Times, South District Journal and Seattle's Police Beat. In 1995, PPC sold The Issaquah Press to The Seattle Times Company. The paper closed in February 2017 after publishing more than 6,000 editions over 117 years. By 2000, PPC had nine publications with a combine total circulation of 90,000 and employed 43 full-time workers and eight part-timers. In 2005, Haley sold PPC to Peter Bernhard, who owned several community newspapers in Nevada. In January 2007, PPC sold The Kirkland Courier to King County Publications, a subsidy of Sound Publishing, and it was renamed to The Kirkland Reporter. PPC originally purchased The Kirkland Courier in 1992, which at that time was a free weekly newspaper with a 17,000 circulation. PPC ran into financial difficulty during the global Great Recession of 2007–2009, selling the Capitol Hill Times in July 2009 to Washington Legal Journal, a legal notice publisher. In January 2012, PPC shut down its South Seattle Beacon and North Seattle Herald-Outlook community newspapers. PPC reacquired the Capitol Hill Times on Jan. 1, 2015 from RIM Publications, the publishing wing of the foreclosure services company that took it over from PPC in 2012. PPC also acquired RIM's last two remaining Washington papers: the Monroe Monitor and Valley News and The Eatonville Dispatch. The Capitol Hill Times, founded in 1926, ceased as of 2020. A year later The Monroe Monitor, founded in 1899, was merged into the Snohomish County Tribune in November 2021. Nevada News Group Nevada News Group is a division of PPC operating in Nevada. Prior to 2022, Nevada News Group published six community newspapers along with a business publication and a ranching magazine. On Aug. 1, 2019, PPC acquired the assets of