[2] A new publication was then created by the merger of: In 1981, the newspaper then absorbed the Eudunda Courier (9 February 1922 – 15 April 1981).
[7] The newspaper was later taken over by the Rural Press in the 1990s and was a part of the Fairfax Media group.
However, there has been some coverage of potentially syndicated articles attached to this title, during 2021 in other databases such as NewsBank.
In 2012, the Herald claimed the largest circulation for a country newspaper in South Australia at 21,400 copies distributed weekly.
[6] By 2018, the average issue readership for the print version was calculated to be 29,000 [8] Like other Rural Press publications, during its life dates, the newspaper was then available online.