In Stephen King’s novel The Colorado Kid, which newspaper employs reporters Vince Teague and Dave Bowie?

In Stephen King’s novel The Colorado Kid, Vince Teague and Dave Bowie work for The Weekly Islander.

The newspaper is based on Moose-Lookit Island, Maine, where the two veteran journalists tell a pair of younger colleagues about an unsolved death. The case concerns an unidentified man found on a nearby beach, and the narrative unfolds through the reporters’ discussion rather than through a conventional investigation that reaches a definitive solution.

The Weekly Islander gives the novel its local-journalism setting. The paper’s small staff and isolated community provide a contrast with the mystery’s unexplained connections across states and decades. The book deliberately emphasizes unanswered questions and the limits of available evidence.

The Colorado Kid was published in 2005 as part of the Hard Case Crime line. Readers sometimes confuse its fictional newspaper with real Maine newspapers, but The Weekly Islander is an invented publication created for King’s story.