Australia’s regional and rural news media exist in a context of closures and threat. Globalization and digitization shape, frame and limit the definitional origins and trajectories of news. The consequences of the absences and gaps from this suburbanized trans-localism are now emerging. This article investigates hyperlocal news in regional and rural Australia. Drawing on a series of interviews with women journalists from regional and rural news outlets in Australia, this article explores the contribution these new outlets and those who work for them are making to areas typically under-served by metropolitan news media. This research enhances our understanding of the important role of regional and rural journalism in Australia through an understanding of the role of hyperlocal news in new and established news outlets. Surprisingly, or perhaps not, these hyper local news outlets are run by women, occasionally with a feminist imperative.