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The first issue of La Nueva España was published in Oviedo on December 19, 1936, in the midst of the Spanish civil war battlefront. The second issue was not released until January 2nd, 1937, and from then it appeared on a daily basis. Born as an organ of the Spanish Falange JONS, it became part of the state-owned Prensa del Movimiento after the war. From the early 40s and under the management of its founder, Francisco Arias de Velasco, it stablished itself as the main newspaper of Asturias. Since April 1977 it was run by an organization called Medios de Comunicación del Estado (State Communication Media).
On April 1st, 1984 La Nueva España was acquired at a public auction by Editorial Prensa Asturiana, which belongs to Editorial Prensa Ibérica. With the change of ownership, La Nueva España started to improve and expand, widely exceeding its previous achievements and establishing itself as one of the main Spanish newspapers, though socially and territorially remaining a newspaper from Asturias. Its diffusion has grown uninterruptedlly year after year since 1984. It is reflected in the certifications of the Oficina de Justificación de la Difusión (OJD, Office for the Verification of Diffusion), according to which, the sales figures of La Nueva España doubled from 1984 to 2009.
According to surveys carried out by the Estudio General de Medios (EGM, Media General Study), it establisheel itself as one of the ten most read general information newspapers in Spain.