Evening Independent

The Evening Independent
The front page of the final edition of The Evening Independent on November 7, 1986
TypeDaily newspaper
OwnerThomson Corporation
FoundedNovember 1907
Ceased publicationNovember 1986
OCLC number2720408

The Evening Independent was St. Petersburg, Florida's first daily newspaper. The sister evening newspaper of the St. Petersburg Times, it was launched as a weekly newspaper in March 1906 under the ownership of Willis B. Powell. In November 1907, it became a daily paper as the St. Petersburg Evening Independent.