Adelaide Hills Council is a local government area in the southern Mount Lofty Ranges. Its seat of local government, Stirling, is approximately 15km east of Adelaide.

Adelaide Hills Council has a small local media ecosystem, which has deteriorated since 2019. The area is covered by The Advertiser, News Corp’s metropolitan daily newspaper for Adelaide. A digital hyperlocal title opened by the publisher in 2020, The Adelaide Hills News, provides some additional community news. Prior to 2022, two other local titles – the Adelaide Hills Herald and Along the Grapevine – also covered the area, but both closed late last year.

The area is part of the Murray Bridge RA1 radio license area, and the Adelaide TV1 television area. A community radio station, Lofty 88.9, provides community news.