Its coverage area includes Fall River and the nearby towns of Dighton, Freetown, Somerset, Swansea and Westport, Massachusetts; as well as Little Compton and Tiverton, Rhode Island.

[3] The Herald News' main competitor to the east is The Standard-Times of the other South Coast city, New Bedford, Massachusetts.

In its northern towns, The Herald News competes with the Taunton Daily Gazette, although the two were both owned by Journal Register and sold together to GateHouse.

[3] On July 16, 2010, publication of El Latino Expreso (founded 2004) and the Brazilian American weekly O Jornal Brasileiro (2007) was ended, with a lack of "a sustained advertiser base" and a desire to focus exclusively on O Jornal cited by GateHouse as the reasons to cease production.

[6] In the 1960s The Herald-News was owned by Mark Goodson, the creator of the popular television game show "To Tell The Truth."