[3][4] Originally a weekly newspaper, the paper moved to being published fortnightly in 2006, and finally monthly in 2017.

[5][1] Recent years have also seen the newspaper re-brand and move to its current news magazine format.

[2] In 1883 the paper began publishing a Women's Corner, edited by Alice Acland.

This fomented the establishment of the Women's League for the Spread of Co-operation later that year.

[5] In 1971 the Scottish Co-operator – founded 1893 – was merged into the Co-operative News.