About Northern Valleys News

Northern Valleys News

The Northern Valleys News is a monthly community newspaper published for Moora and the northern valleys of Western Australia's wheatbelt. Published since around 2011, the paper serves the northern wheatbelt districts: the monthly issue hitting stands around the region — available from outlets including the Kingsford Centre shopping complex in Bullsbrook — with cover stories, local news, community features and advertising. The paper's website is nvnews.com.au, where the monthly's cover stories are published online.

Overview

Moora — the major town of the Midlands district, the wheatbelt service centre north of Perth — is the Northern Valleys News' home: the monthly paper for the northern valleys. The paper covers the district's life: the shires' affairs, the farming seasons, the community events, the local identities — the December cover story on Carmel's eight years in local government and the Muchea Recreation Centre development is the paper's characteristic journalism: the community's people, recognised. As a monthly, the paper is the district's magazine: the longer reads, the features, the community's record.

History

The Northern Valleys News has been published since around 2011 — the monthly for a district whose earlier papers (the Moora Herald and Midland Districts Advocate, 1914–1930; the Moora & Central Districts Gazette, 1994–1995; the Moora Advocate, 1993–1994) had come and gone. The 2011 founding gave the northern valleys a stable community paper: the monthly rhythm, the cover-story format, the regional distribution. The paper's social-media presence — the "OUT TODAY" announcements, the deadline reminders, the community milestones — shows the monthly's engaged readership: the December 2025 issue out on the 4th, the Woolworths opening in Bullsbrook covered as the transformative moment.

Content

The Northern Valleys News publishes cover stories, local news, community features and advertising for the northern valleys. The monthly's journalism is the community-magazine mix: the profile interviews (the local-government veteran, the community achiever), the development news (the Kingsford Town Centre, the new supermarket), the event coverage, the advertising that sustains the free press. The submission deadlines — advertising bookings and articles due by the monthly deadline — keep the paper the community's production: the district's businesses and groups, in print.

Coverage and Audience

The paper's footprint is Moora and the northern valleys: Bullsbrook, Muchea, the Midlands districts north of Perth. Its readers are the district's residents: the wheatbelt farmers, the town businesses, the commuters, the families of the northern valleys. The monthly stands — the Kingsford Centre in Bullsbrook, the outlets around the region — put the paper where the community shops: the free monthly, picked up with the groceries.

Ownership

The Northern Valleys News is an independent community newspaper — the monthly published for the northern valleys since around 2011. The paper's nvnews.com.au domain is its digital home: the cover stories published online, the community's monthly, on the screen.

Digital Presence

The Northern Valleys News maintains its website at nvnews.com.au, where the monthly's cover stories — the December 2025 issue's features — are published for online readers. The paper's social-media announcements — the issue launches, the deadline reminders, the community news — extend the monthly into the daily conversation: the northern valleys' community, online. Since around 2011, the Northern Valleys News has been Moora and the northern valleys' monthly: the cover stories, the community features, the district's record.

The Monthly Format

The Northern Valleys News' monthly format — the cover story, the features, the community pages — gives the northern valleys a magazine: the longer reads the weeklies don't carry, the profiles the dailies don't write. The December 2025 issue — out on the 4th, deadline the 27th of November — shows the monthly's production rhythm: the articles submitted, the advertising booked, the issue printed, the stands stocked. The cover story — Carmel's local-government valedictory, the Muchea Recreation Centre achievement — is the monthly's signature: the community's people, honoured in print.

Moora's Press History

Moora's earlier papers — the Moora Herald and Midland Districts Advocate (1914–1930), the Moora Advocate (1993–1994), the Moora & Central Districts Gazette (1994–1995) — show the district's press fragility: the titles that came and went. The Northern Valleys News' 2011 founding — and its 14-year run since — is the district's press stability: the monthly that lasted. Moora — the major town of the Midlands, the Noongar district's colonial centre, the wheatbelt service town — finally has its enduring paper: the northern valleys' monthly.

The Northern Valleys

The northern valleys — the Avon Valley's northern reaches, the Moora district, the Bullsbrook-Muchea corridor — are the paper's patch: the wheatbelt's northern edge, where the farms meet the Perth commuter belt. The district's transformation — Bullsbrook's Kingsford Town Centre, the new Woolworths (opened 29 October 2025), the 17 specialty shops — is the paper's development beat: the growth corridor's news, reported for the locals. The paper covers the change: the farmland becoming suburbs, the community building itself.

The Community's Monthly

The paper's social-media voice — the star-emblazoned "OUT TODAY" announcements, the deadline reminders, the community celebrations — is the monthly's community management: the readers reminded, the contributors prompted, the milestones shared. The nvnews.com.au cover stories — "Giving the Gift of Time" and the like — give the monthly its digital archive: the community's features, searchable. For the northern valleys' readers, the monthly is the ritual: the issue out, the stands stocked, the district reading.

The Cover Stories

The Northern Valleys News' cover-story journalism — the in-depth profiles, the community achievements, the local identities — is the monthly's distinction: the stories the weeklies summarise, the monthly tells. Carmel's eight-year local-government retrospective — the considered exit, the Muchea Recreation Centre legacy, the turnover philosophy — is the paper at its best: the community's governance, humanised. The monthly's features give the northern valleys its memory: the people who shaped the district, recorded.

The District's Record

Since around 2011, the Northern Valleys News has recorded the northern valleys' modern chapters: the growth corridor's expansion, the farming seasons, the community's events, the local identities. The monthly issues — the stands at Kingsford, the outlets around the region — are the district's archive: the cover stories, the photographs, the advertisements of the northern valleys' businesses. The paper that began around 2011 as the district's monthly remains it: the Northern Valleys News, Moora and the northern valleys' paper, in print monthly and online at nvnews.com.au.

The Growth Corridor

Bullsbrook's transformation — the Kingsford Town Centre, the Woolworths anchor (29 October 2025), the specialty shops, the food outlets — is the northern valleys' growth story: the farmland becoming the suburb, the community building its commercial heart. The paper's coverage — the "transformative moment" language, the community celebration — shows the monthly as the growth's chronicler: the district's expansion, welcomed. For the Kingsford residents — the new households, the young families — the Northern Valleys News is the suburb's paper: the monthly that tells them who their neighbours are.

The Farming Districts

Beyond the growth corridor, the paper serves the farming districts: Moora's wheat and sheep country, the Midlands' agricultural heartland. The monthly's rural coverage — the seasons, the shows, the community events — serves the farming families: the district's economic base, the paper's rural readers. The Northern Valleys News bridges the district's two economies: the farms and the suburbs, the wheatbelt and the commuter belt, the monthly for both.

The Independent Monthly

The Northern Valleys News' independence — the community monthly, published for the district since around 2011 — is the northern valleys' media distinction: a paper owned outside the corporate groups, serving the district the corporates overlooked. The 14-year run — through the press industry's hardest decade — is the achievement: the monthly that kept publishing while titles closed around it. For Moora and the northern valleys, the paper is the proof that a district can sustain its own press: the monthly, the cover stories, the community — still publishing.