This study seeks to examine the characteristics of local news in the Omani Arabic dailies; Al-Watan, Oman, Al-Shabiba, and Al-Ru'ya. The study used the survey method, to analyze the content of local news in a constructed random sample during the period from October 1 to December 31, 2021. The study also used unstructured interviews with a sample of journalists in charge of local news in the newspapers. The study revealed that most of the local news published in the Omani dailies focus on the national news in the first place, considering that; they are national newspapers that cover the entire Sultanate of Oman. News of the governorates and states/wilayates came in second place, with Oman newspaper outperforming on this type of news. This is due to the large number of correspondents it has in the various governorates. The large number of pages in Oman newspaper allocated to local news compared since it is a governmental newspaper seeking to indicate its emphasis and highlight of the government's achievements in the development of the governorates. The study concludes that the Omani Arabic daily newspapers depend primarily on government institutions as sources of local news. This result seems consistent with the existing media system in the Sultanate, in which newspapers and media serve as platforms for publishing government and official news, the government institutions provide newspapers with the news and sometimes force newspapers to publish them. Government officials came in second place in the list of sources making local news in Omani daily newspapers, then private sector officials, followed by military and security source. With regard to journalists responsible for the production of local news in the Omani newspapers, the results confirmed the impact of self-censorship of the journalist, editor and editorial managers in general on the process of news selection. The respondents emphasized that, the Ministry of Information did not interfere in the production and dissemination of local news. The study recommended that the Omani daily newspapers should take into account the attribution of information in local news to its sources explicitly and to avoid anonymous sources, in order to preserve the right of the reader to know the sources of published information. The study recommended also the necessity of conducting more studies on local news in Omani newspapers.