# Tri-City Herald: Local News WA

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Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id506717025](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id506717025)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id506717025`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** The McClatchy Company
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.20 / 5 (977 ratings)
- **Version:** 11.1.17
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-13
- **First published:** 2012-03-08
- **Size:** 145 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tri-city-herald-local-news-wa/id506717025)
- **Website:** [https://www.tri-cityherald.com/](https://www.tri-cityherald.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.tri-cityherald.com/customer-service/privacy-policy/](http://www.tri-cityherald.com/customer-service/privacy-policy/)

## Description

The Tri-City Herald News app provides fast access to local daily news, crime coverage, and sports from Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland in the Tri-Cities. 

Enjoy AI-generated summaries, live video, personalized feeds, bookmarking, dark mode, sharing, comments, and offline access to archived issues for a tailored, convenient reading experience.

## Rankings

- #57,873 — Overall

## Review summary

Reviewers consistently describe a fragile, unreliable app. The most recurring complaints are crashes or loading failures, difficulty logging into paid subscriptions and bypassing paywalls, and incompatibility with older devices due to OS requirements. Many users also report intrusive ads inside paid content and degraded functionality after updates, including slower performance, missing front-page graphics, and reduced features. Content timeliness is another concern, with posts and updates appearing slowly or not at all on weekends. Overall sentiment is negative, with calls to rollback or switch to alternatives.

### Pros

- No widely reported positive features across reviews.

### Cons

- Frequent crashes and loading failures, making reading unreliable.
- Cannot login to subscription through the app or bypass paywalls; paid content often inaccessible; customer support unresponsive.
- New version requires newer iOS; older devices (e.g., iPad mini 4) can’t upgrade to run the app.
- Ads persist despite paid subscription; intrusive ads and pop-ups degrade reading experience.
- Content timeliness and features degraded after updates; front-page graphics missing; weekend gaps; some features like sharing or comics removed.

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