The Whyalla News was first published on 5 April 1940 by Jock Willson and trading as Northern Newspapers.
In November 1960, the Whyalla News became a biweekly newspaper, before it became a triweekly in October 1968.
[4] The newspaper chronicled the development of the town from its infancy as a BHP company town through the establishment of the Whyalla steelworks, autonomous local government in 1970, and the closure of the shipyard in 1978.
Other Northern Newspapers holdings included the Transcontinental, the Spencer Gulf Pictorial (1970-1992), the Recorder, the Flinders News, Eyre Peninsula Tribune, the Barossa Herald, and the Times, as well as a printing company.
Today, its reportage includes any news relevant to the people of Whyalla and neighbouring towns of Cowell, Kimba and Iron Knob.