The newspaper is owned by Sun (Fiji) News Ltd and was launched in September 1999. It is still owned and operated by a group of local investors and is Fiji’s only wholly nationally owned daily newspaper.The company employs a total staff of 92 with a further 40-plus under sub contractors. The newspaper is published seven days per week except for Good Friday and Christmas Day. 

The company’s line of Goss Community web offset presses is the most up to date newspaper production facility in the country and is known for its quality of full colour reproduction.

In recent times the newspaper has developed a reputation for breaking news stories of national significance and has won the leading news and photographic awards in the national print category at the Fiji Media Council annual presentation.