Las Vegas Optic

The Las Vegas Optic is a newspaper located in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Published on Wednesday and Friday of each week, it serves San Miguel and Mora counties.

History

Founded in 1879 as the Las Vegas Weekly Optic., then owner and editor, Russell A. Kistler, revamped the struggling weekly into a daily paper, calling it the Las Vegas Daily Optic. In 1908, the Las Vegas Daily Optic was renamed the Las Vegas Optic
In 2021, the newspaper's owner Landmark Community Newspapers was sold to Paxton Media Group. A couple months later the Las Vegas Optic was sold to O’Rourke Media Group.