[5] The paper was founded by William Farrow Taylor as the Cambridge Daily News in 1888.

[citation needed] The paper was later sold to the Iliffe family,[citation needed] who continued to turn the paper into a profit-making business under the new name of the Cambridge Evening News, starting in 1969.

[citation needed] In 2012, Local World acquired the title from Yattendon Group.

[9] The 6 December 2017 edition of Cambridge News was noted for a printing error on the front page.

After images of the cover spread virally on social media, the editor-in-chief apologised to readers and blamed a technical error in the publishing process.