The Times Publishing Company built a new plant, housing a Goss Metro offset press, at 205 West 12th Street, moving there on June 6, 1970.

In 1977, the two Saturday editions were combined into the "Times-News Weekender," a paper staffed only by "Morning News" reporters and editors.

The company merged the two staffs and operations into the present-day Erie Times-News, which was first published on October 2, 2000.

[2] During most of the 1970s through the late 1990s cousins Ed, Mike and Frank Mead operated the company growing it from two daily newspapers, the Warren Times-Observer and the Erie Times-News.

The company was variously involved in radio (Florida), cable television (Millcreek Township and Edinboro) and local weekly/weekly newspapers in Northwestern Pennsylvania and California.

The paper also killed two of its three "Neighbors" zoned editions, a move that accounted for almost half of the initial 24 job cuts.

On September 13, 2007, the Erie Times-News named Rosanne M. Cheeseman to succeed the retiring James Dible as CEO and publisher of the newspaper as of October 1, 2007.

On March 10, 2011, it was announced that 48 full-time and part-time employees of the Erie Times-News would be permanently laid off from their positions in the printing and packaging departments of the newspaper.