The paper's local news coverage ranges from town politics, to infrastructure, to city traditions and events.

Hearst also owns the Connecticut Post in Bridgeport and the Brooks Community Newspapers chain of weeklies in the lower Fairfield County.

The current average daily net press run is 7,511 copies as reported in The Publisher's statement on October 1, 2018.

MediaNews announced that it will also buy the News-Times building at 333 Main Street, which had not been part of the sale to Community Newspaper Holdings.

[4] On August 8, 2008, the Hearst Corporation acquired the Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, Conn.) and www.ctpost.com, including seven non-daily newspapers, from MediaNews Group, Inc.