The future of Victoria's third oldest newspaper is in question. Locals and experts say communities are deeply impacted by the loss of regional news outlets. All four mastheads under the Spectator ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sale of the Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday paper, to news start-up Tortoise Media has been approved. The move by the ...

For 140 years, we’ve covered the Gladstone region with passion and pride because we’re locals and we live here. It is a not a role we take lightly as the custodians of The Observer, which has covered ...