About Beaumont News

Beaumont News

Overview

The Beaumont News is the community newspaper of Beaumont, Alberta, a city in Leduc County immediately south of Edmonton. In its owner's corporate materials the paper carries the fuller bilingual name La Nouvelle Beaumont News — "la nouvelle" being French for "the news," a reflection of Beaumont's origins as a French-Canadian farming community. The paper is published by Postmedia Network and appears in Postmedia's 2024 and 2025 annual reports, the latter filed on 26 November 2025, among the company's newspaper brands, with its community given as Beaumont, Alberta.

The News is a weekly community title in Postmedia's Alberta group, published through thebeaumontnews.ca on the company's community-newspaper platform. Its coverage is the standard fare of a small-city weekly — Beaumont city council, community sport, schools, the local curling club, RCMP and regional news — produced within a shared newsroom arrangement: its named reporter, Dominique Vrolyk, covers both Beaumont and the neighbouring city of Leduc, and is listed by media-monitoring service Muck Rack as a journalist for both the Beaumont News and the Leduc Rep.

Beaumont gives the paper a distinctive market. It is a young, rapidly expanding commuter city within the Edmonton metropolitan region, and its council's business — growth planning, recreation facilities, budgets for new fire and protective services — forms the backbone of the News's local coverage, alongside the community institutions, such as the Beaumont Curling Club, whose activities the paper has chronicled for years.

History

The Beaumont News's founding date is not stated in the public sources available for this profile, and none is asserted here. The paper's documented history is the history of its place in Canada's newspaper chains. It appears in listings of Sun Media's Alberta weekly newspapers under the name The Beaumont News, in the company of the Leduc Representative, the Devon Dispatch and the County Market in Leduc. When Postmedia acquired Sun Media's English-language newspaper business — a sale announced on 6 October 2014, approved by the federal Competition Bureau on 25 March 2015 and closed on 13 April 2015 — the Beaumont News passed to Postmedia with the rest of that portfolio.

Under Postmedia the paper was carried into the company's digital reinvestment in its community titles. On 10 December 2020 the company announced the launch of more than eighty redesigned community newspaper websites, and the Beaumont title, listed in that announcement as La Nouvelle Beaumont News, was among them. The dual naming is visible in the record of the paper's coverage as well: reference works citing its reporting — for example, its August 2019 account of the Beaumont Curling Club's sixtieth anniversary celebrations and its September 2023 coverage of the club hosting an Alberta Curling Series event — cite the paper under its full name, La Nouvelle Beaumont News.

The French element of that name is not decorative. Beaumont began in the 1890s as a French-Canadian agricultural settlement on the hill south of Edmonton, and French language and institutions remain part of the city's identity. A community newspaper whose corporate style preserves a French name is a small, durable marker of that heritage inside a large English-language chain.

Programming and Content

The Beaumont News's local reporting centres on city council and community life. A representative recent example of its council coverage is its report, by Dominique Vrolyk, on the new Beaumont mayor and council receiving the first poppy of the annual National Poppy Campaign on 28 October — the ceremonial start of the Remembrance Day campaign, held days after Alberta's October 2025 municipal elections had seated a new council. Its community-sport coverage is similarly local in character: the paper's reports on the Beaumont Curling Club, from the club's sixtieth anniversary in 2019 to its hosting of provincial series curling in 2023, are the kind of institutional coverage that makes a weekly the record of a small city's voluntary sector.

Alongside its own reporting, the News carries the shared output of the Postmedia network. Its website runs provincial and national news and Postmedia News copy; a January 2024 article on the federal public service carried on thebeaumontnews.ca was republished by national news services, an illustration of how the community site's content stream combines local items with centrally produced material. Regional stories are shared across the neighbouring Postmedia titles in the Leduc area: Vrolyk's byline appears on both Beaumont and Leduc stories, and the two papers' coverage of events such as the Leduc seniors' expo reflects a single reporting pool serving the county's communities.

Regular weekly features follow the community-newspaper pattern: council and school news, minor sport, community events, announcements and obituaries, supplemented by the network's provincial politics, agriculture and energy coverage of particular relevance to Leduc County readers.

Audience and Reach

The News's audience is the population of Beaumont and the surrounding part of Leduc County. Beaumont is among the Edmonton region's growth communities: its 2026 budget, approved by council in December 2025 under Mayor Lisa Vanderkwaak, was framed by the city around "the planning of responsible growth, the protection of core services and infrastructure" — the city's own words in its budget release — with funding for additional firefighters and community peace officers to keep pace with expansion. A newspaper covering such a city writes for an audience of newcomers as much as for established residents, and its council coverage, development news and recreation reporting reflect that.

No audited circulation figure for the Beaumont News is published in the sources used for this profile, and none is claimed. Its reach is that of a Postmedia community title: print distribution in its home city in the weekly tradition of the chain's Alberta papers, and digital reach through thebeaumontnews.ca, search and social referral, and cross-promotion within Postmedia's Edmonton-area network, which includes the Edmonton Journal and Edmonton Sun and the neighbouring Leduc and Devon titles.

Digital Presence

The paper's website, thebeaumontnews.ca, operates on Postmedia's standard community platform, relaunched in the company's December 2020 redesign of more than eighty community newspaper websites. The site carries the paper's local stories alongside network sections for provincial, national, world, sports and business news, and its articles are indexed by monitoring services such as Muck Rack, which tracks the output of its named reporters. The Beaumont News also circulates as a digital edition brand in app catalogues under its full name, La Nouvelle Beaumont News, described there as a source of local news, events, weather and sports for the Beaumont community.

Because the paper's own domain could not be rendered directly for this profile, the exact current arrangement of the site's sections should be confirmed visually at the publish stage; the description here follows Postmedia's documented community platform and the paper's indexed and cited output.

Ownership and Organisation

The Beaumont News is owned and published by Postmedia Network, the Toronto-based publisher of the National Post, the Edmonton Journal and more than 130 print and digital titles. It came into the company with the April 2015 acquisition of Sun Media's English-language newspapers, and it is listed as a current Postmedia brand in the company's 2024 annual report and again in its 2025 annual report, filed on 26 November 2025.

Organisationally, the paper belongs to Postmedia's Alberta community-newspaper group and is produced within the reporting structure the company maintains for the Leduc County area, in which journalists cover several neighbouring titles: Dominique Vrolyk is publicly listed as a journalist for both the Leduc Rep and La Nouvelle Beaumont News, and the papers share regional coverage accordingly. No separately published publisher or editor for the Beaumont News alone appears in the sources used here, and none is asserted; the paper's named staff presence in the public record is its reporter.

Contact and Availability

The Beaumont News serves Beaumont, Alberta, and is published by Postmedia Network. It is available in Beaumont as the city's community newspaper and online at thebeaumontnews.ca, which readers should use for current stories and for the contact routes the company publishes for its community titles, including newsroom tips and advertising enquiries. Its continued publication is confirmed by its listing among Postmedia's current brands in the company's 2025 annual report and by its dated local reporting, including its council coverage of October 2025.