Halden was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Halden

Halden

is a both a town and a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The seat of the municipality, Halden is a border town located at the Tista river delta on the Iddefjord, the southernmost border crossing between Norway and Sweden.-History:...

 in Østfold

Østfold

is a county in southeastern Norway, bordering Akershus and southwestern Sweden , while Buskerud and Vestfold is on the other side of the bay. The seat of the county administration is Sarpsborg, and Fredrikstad is the largest city.Many manufacturing facilities are situated here. Moss and...

 county.

Halden was started in 1882 as a liberal competitor to the city's dominant, conservative newspaper Smaalenenes Amtstidende

Smaalenenes Amtstidende

Smaalenenes Amtstidende was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Halden in Østfold county. From 1971 to 1975 it was named Amta.Smaalenenes Amtstidende was started on 9 October 1832 as the first newspaper in Østfold county . It was published by two book printers, and edited by teacher Hans Museus...

. The first editor was Jens Olsen. Sigurd Østensen Sandberg later took over informally, then formally from 1906 until his death in 1931. From the same year the newspaper was jointly printed with Glommen

Glommen (newspaper)

Glommen was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Sarpsborg in Østfold county.Glommen was started on 19 September 1888. It was published by Tollef Ellefssøn, and edited by an anonymous person, who was really Oluf Falck-Ytter. The newspaper was started as a competitor to the city's dominant,...

. The circulation was stable at around 1,500 copies in both 1920 and 1932.

The newspaper struggled to survive, and the German occupation of Norway worsened the situation. The last edition of Halden came on 1 October 1941. The stop came at the same time as Glommen was forcibly shut down, and neither newspaper returned.