About
About The Sun News
Mailing address | P.O. Box 406, Myrtle Beach, SC 29578
Physical address | 914 Frontage Road E., Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
843-626-8555 or 1-800-568-1800
Founded
The weekly Myrtle Beach News was founded in 1936. In 1961, the Myrtle Beach Sun (founded in 1950) bought the Myrtle Beach News and formed The Sun News newspaper. The State-Record Company of Columbia bought The Sun News in 1973 and it became a Monday-Saturday newspaper. In 1977, The Sun News added a Sunday paper and began printing seven days a week. Knight-Ridder purchased The State-Record Company, including The Sun News, in December 1986. The McClatchy Co. bought Knight Ridder and The Sun News in June 2006.
Circulation
50,937 daily; 59,945 Sunday
Most
- Missing Ohio teen found in Myrtle Beach
- Cause of illness that sickened many at political event in Myrtle Beach revealed
- See salaries of South Carolina high school football coaches
- Fatal car crash in Conway involving Horry County police officer
- Checkpoints beefed up to detain drunken drivers in Myrtle Beach area
- SC sheriff: Same killer shot 2 women, 1 man
- Conway boyfriend gets hit with murder charge
- Statement from First Lady Jenny Sanford
- Man admits killing to police in Little River
- Sudden wildfire alarms residents in Myrtle Beach area
