The Times West Virginian is a six-day morning daily newspaper based in Fairmont, West Virginia, which also covers the city of Bridgeport, West Virginia, and surrounding communities in Marion, Monongalia, Taylor and Harrison counties, West Virginia. The paper was founded as the "Fairmont Times and West Virginian" through the merging of the long-running "Fairmont Times" and "Fairmont West Virginian" in 1975. It adopted its current name in 1976. It does not publish a Sunday edition. It is published Monday thru Friday and a Weekend Edition delivered on Saturday mornings.