Hills & Valley Messenger
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Hills & Valley Messenger is a weekly suburban newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

 in Adelaide
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

, part of the Messenger Newspapers
Messenger Newspapers
Messenger Newspapers is the publisher of 11 free suburban weekly newspapers together covering the Adelaide metropolitan area. Established by Roger Baynes in Port Adelaide in 1951, Messenger has since acquired other independent suburban titles to become Adelaide's only suburban newspaper group...

 group. The Hills & Valley's area is bounded by the Belair National Park
Belair National Park
Belair National Park is a national park in South Australia , 13 km south of Adelaide, covering an 835ha area. It was proclaimed in 1891 and was the first National Park in South Australia, second in Australia and the tenth in the world...

 in the north-east, and the suburbs of Darlington
Darlington, South Australia
Darlington is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia part of which is in the City of Onkaparinga and the City of Marion.-References:...

 to the west and Happy Valley
Happy Valley, South Australia
Happy Valley is a metropolitan suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is located 20 km south of the Central Business District of Adelaide.Within the suburb is the Happy Valley Reservoir accompanied by South Australia's largest water treatment plant, responsible for supplying water to much of the...

 to the south. Its western border roughly divides the foothills from the Adelaide plains.

The newspaper generally reports on events of interest in its distribution area, including the suburbs of Belair
Belair, South Australia
Belair is a suburb situated in the southern foothills of Adelaide, South Australia.-Geography:A leafy suburb, Belair was established during the settlement of Adelaide as a source of timber. Parts of Belair have views of the city of Adelaide, the Adelaide Plains and the coast...

, Blackwood
Blackwood, South Australia
Blackwood is a south eastern suburb located in the foothills of Adelaide, South Australia.-History:The first use of the name "Blackwood" appears to have been before 1880, in relation to the "Blackwood Inn", a small hotel located where the Belair Hotel now stands, and was probably derived from the...

, Flagstaff Hill
Flagstaff Hill, South Australia
-Federal:Flagstaff Hill is covered by one Federal Electoral Division, the federal Division of Boothby, whose representative is Dr Andrew Southcott.-State:...

 and Aberfoyle Park
Aberfoyle Park, South Australia
Aberfoyle Park is a southern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Onkaparinga, South Australia. It has a shopping mall called "The Hub", several primary schools and a public high school, one of the biggest in the state.-Governance:...

. It also covers the City of Mitcham
City of Mitcham
The City of Mitcham is a Local Government Area situated in the foothills of eastern Adelaide, South Australia. Within its bounds is Flinders University, South Australia's third largest....

 and City of Onkaparinga
City of Onkaparinga
The City of Onkaparinga is a local government area located on the southern fringe of Adelaide, South Australia. It is named after the Onkaparinga River, whose name comes from Ngangkiparinga, a Kaurna word meaning "The Women's River"...

councils.

It has a circulation of 19,253 and a readership of 35,000.

The office for the Hills & Valley Messenger has moved in recent times from the Southern Times Office in Morphett Vale to the Guardian Office in Morphettville.

History

The Hills Gazette was established in 1973 and was renamed the Hills Messenger in 1984. In 1990 the paper was merged with the Belair/Blackwood Messenger and renamed Hills & Valley Messenger.

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