The Star Tribune is the largest newspaper in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Its origins date to the founding of the Minneapolis Tribune in 1867 and the competing Minneapolis Daily Star in 1920. During the 1930s and 1940s, Minneapolis's competing newspapers were consolidated under a single owner with the Star as the city's morning newspaper and the Tribune as the evening newspaper. The two were merged in 1982 creating a single newspaper with the combined name of Star Tribune. After a tumultuous period where the newspaper was sold and re-sold and later forced to declare bankruptcy in 2009, it was purchased by local businessman Glen Taylor in 2014.