Arizona Silver Belt

The Arizona Silver Belt is a weekly newspaper serving Globe and Miami, Arizona, published every Wednesday and recognized as the oldest continuously operating weekly newspaper in Arizona.

The paper was first published on May 2, 1878, in Globe by Judge Aaron Harrison Hackney and A.H. Morehead, who brought in a printing press by burro from Silver City, New Mexico; its name referenced the shape of the area's silver ore deposit. Founding editor Hackney led the paper until his death in 1899, when Joseph H. Hamill took over and, in 1906, launched a daily edition. The paper relocated to neighboring Miami in 1912-13 under owner Cleve W. Van Dyke and merged with a rival Globe paper, the Record, in 1975, retaining the Silver Belt name.

The paper has long covered Gila County mining, local government, and community news, with a digitized historical archive maintained through the Arizona Memory Project and Library of Congress Chronicling America collection.

The paper is available through print and online subscription, with an e-edition and community news coverage published on its website; historical issues are freely searchable through Arizona's digital newspaper archives.