With more than 50 million visitors, West Island News has become a central news outlet for West Islanders online who wish to keep in touch with community news.

With an average of 30 posts with several contributing writers per week and several posts daily on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram clients rely on West Island News for up to the minute reports on events from Hydro outages and water scares to fundraising events and municipal news. Fundraising groups from the area are promoted regularly developing an additional following that translates to thousands of views each week.

West Island News has a segment on Global TV that shares Rhonda's Best of the West the first Wednesday of every month.