Local Media Pty Ltd publishes Frankston and Mornington Peninsula editions of The Local Paper. It incorporates the traditions of the Mornington Peninsula Post, Southern Peninsula Gazette and the Hastings Sun.

The Peninsula Post  began in 1913 as a re-plated edition of the Frankston Post The Mornington Standard was born on October 5, 1889, at a time when the town’s population was 794. William Crawford Jnr headed a chain of Bayside newspapers from Cheltenham, Standard Newspapers, from 1928.

A Mornington Leader newspaper commenced in 1953, was purchased by Westernport Printing and Publishing in 1988, and was merged with the Southern Peninsula Gazette in 1995. The Southern Peninsula Gazette was launched as a paid newspaper in 1953.

The Hastings Sun was an off-shoot of the Koo-Wee-Rup Sun (Westernport Publishing Co.) headed by Chris Fisher and Phillip Gannon.

News Corporation continues to publish online coverage for the region under the Leader and Standard names. Local Media Pty Ltd is not connected in any way with News Corp.