It covers the Lister Region i southwestern Norway, with the municipalities of Farsund, Lyngdal and Hægebostad as its main area.

[2] The newspaper is published by AS Farsunds Aktiebogtrykkeri, which is mainly owned by Fædrelandsvennen AS (86.2%), Glastad Invest AS (7.7%), Odd Reidar Øie (2.9%), Aslaug Bech Cutler (1.1%), and various other owners (2.1%).

[5] The now defunct radical newspaper Lister (1873–1934) reported from a meeting in Farsund held by the Conservative Party of Norway.

Officials from the Church were also present, and the newspaper undeliberately named them «presteskrap» instead of «presteskap».

The people of the upper class in Farsund were fed up and founded their own newspaper on 15 June 1889.